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为什么现在是写一个 App 最好的时间点

昨天我在 Twitter 上抛出这个命题后有一些朋友来问，我的解释如下：

5G 大面积商用马上就来了，不管你在北美还是国内，这个都是一个巨大的机遇。09 年的 iPhone 3G 才是 Apple 最重要的开山作品，而不是第一代，这个起码的共识我觉得我们应该有。而 Apple 不会蠢到犯第二次这种错误，新的 iPhone 一定会在第一时间支持大部分 5G 网络频段。带宽和速度就是最重要的基础，没有之一，Twitter，微博从那时候开始做不是没有原因的，4G 普及后各种直播，视频类平台的爆发也不是没有原因的，这次会是什么？会不会是你做的东西？

Apple 从 ARkit 1.0 到 2.0 的发布上花了更多时间（今年的 WWDC 上花了差不多 20 分钟），我有理由相信，全世界身价最高的科技公司不会在布局上开玩笑，其他厂商的摄像头硬件升级可能会是模组和算法在拍照和视频方面的升级，iPhone（iPad）不会，而且很有可能今年就能看到极大的进化，至少在新 iPhone 上，目前 ARKit 的场景很窄的原因主要是因为硬件不足，比如需要更多的进光量，需要更多的景深探测，需要更好的精准测距等等，且在今年的 WWDC 上展现了游戏的巨大潜力，现在只等硬件和带宽更好的支持，而我预计这一切都会在新硬件中被解决，被回答，你要不要现在就开始准备好呢？

市面上有多少台 Mac 能升级到明年的新系统，就意味着你作为 iOS 开发者有多少潜在的新用户。今年你可以开始打磨自己的 iOS 作品，尤其是专业工具类，到明年迁移成本足够低的情况下用最快的速度就能到 Mac 上，同样 Mac 上的专业工具迁移到 iOS 也会相对轻松的多，相信我，当 Apple 尝试去打通他自己的产品，尤其是软件时，惯用的做法就是假设每个人都是初学者，你可以不会 AppKit，可以不会 Cocoa，甚至 OC 都只会皮毛的情况下，把今年的 Swift 准备好，明年的 Swift 一定能让你顺利成为桌面级软件的开发者。而你需要准备的就是准备好一个你有热情的作品，在 iOS 上把它做好，时间一到，Marzipan 计划的能量可能会超出你的想象。比如 iPad 上的视频剪辑类 app 等，这不是大饼，这是看得到的期许。

今年的 iPad Pro 肯定会有软件上的更多进化，如果你的 app 到今年还不是 universal 的话现在真是一个好时候，iPad 在被 Mac 反哺后绝对会是一个巨大的机会，真正变成很多人眼中的 Pro Machine，而你的 Pro apps 能卖的价格绝对不是现在的价格。

订阅制，简单点说，就是 Apple 官方用机制让你活的时间变得比以前（可能）更长了，这玩意，就像用信用卡绑定某个服务一样，除非它在骚扰你，或是有人警告你，大部分人的习惯是很少主动取消任何订阅（不接受反驳，我做过调查）......原因可能听上去很搞笑，但事实就是取消订阅在 iOS 上仍然是一个入口偏深的操作，大部分人都很懒，真的，你说好赚不好赚？你只需要用合理的价格和 OK 的作品让他们产生第一次订阅即可......

在今年的 Siri Shortcuts 之后，Home Automation 这个概念将被极大的普及，如果你有能力做硬件，为什么不做 HomeKit 相关的？目前的都不便宜，这个缺口非常之大，你愿不愿意来填？

Apple Watch 即将成为另一个独立的设备，audio playback 接口开放了，更多的健身数据接口开放了，可以直接联网了，在这上面有没有更多的想法呢？这几年下来，Watch 因为受制于 iPhone 导致应用场景一直都在健身和通知这两块，那现在能不能做更多呢？

App Annie 的 2017 的年度回顾报告中的数据（如果你是认真的移动端从业人员，我完全理解不了你为什么到现在还没买他们的数据）对比 2015 年，从下载量到消费额都有较大幅度增长，在 2017 到 2022 年的应用经济预测中预测，即使在成熟模型下，整体的软件消费仍然会相较 2017 年增长接近 100%，我订阅 App Annie 五年了，让我告诉你，他们的数据非常靠谱，这几年间，一次都没让我失望过。那这些数据该怎么理解呢？一句话，现在是一个节点，赶紧他妈的开始干吧，还不晚。（他家的月榜分析和各种分类下的 MAU 也建议好好看看，非常靠谱）

今天先写到这，明天会有更多的分类数据，包括我现在做的手游类，各位请早。

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If sky is charged with water bill, it'll announce itself broke.

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> You’d be worth $27M if you’d invested in AAPL stock instead of having a kid … Ye, triple the figure if you wanna. But you'll never have so much fun without your kids, right? https://9to5mac.com/2016/08/16/aapl-stock-versus-kid-27m/

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Wonderful conversations from 2 of my favorite artists.

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The part of him talking about Peter Thiel is really well thought-out and spot on.

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Watch the whole thing, or at least the part of him talking Trump, insightful and well organized, I guess that's why he's been around on TV for so long and respected.

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Facebook=Facehole

Facebook has tested the loyalty and patience of Android users by secretly introducing artificial errors that would automatically crash the app for hours at a time, says one person familiar with the one-time experiment. The purpose of the test, which happened several years ago, was to see at what threshold would a person ditch the Facebook app altogether. The company wasn’t able to reach the threshold. "People never stopped coming back," this person says.

Yew, Ladies and Gents, this is the one of the BIGGEST tech companies on this fucking planet.

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Jason Snell reviews the new Magic Trackpad 2: The Magic Trackpad 2 requires Bluetooth 4, so older devices may be incompatible. But! If you plug a Magic Trackpad 2 into a Mac via the included Lightning-to-USB cable, it works even if Bluetooth is off. I can’t confirm that it’ll work on older Macs via wired mode, but it might.

This is really interesting for a company who’s trying their best to get rid of any kind of wires but now embrace it as an alternative? I think it shows even people at Apple has suffered from the well-known shitty Bluetooth bug across almost all Apple products(especially on some old model iMacs, it drove me crazy for quite a bit back then!)… for all these years.

And the best solution they can think of is back to wire again?

Are you shitting me?

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You gotta watch this.

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微软证实，不管用户有没有决定“升级”到Windows 10，它在本周二的例行更新中向他们推送了Windows 10。一位没打算升级的用户在系统内发现了Windows 10的镜像，镜像放在一个名叫$Windows.~BT的隐藏文件夹内，占据了 3.5GB到6GB的空间，而Windows更新历史中出现了Windows 10升级失败的记录。微软对此回应说，如果用户有一天决定升级，那么升级文件就已准备就绪了，他们推送Windows 10是帮助设备做好升级准备。硬盘容量有限的人注意了，微软悄悄的吞掉了一大块空间。

Another reason why Microsoft is going down in a long run. They just have no freaking respect for their customers or in the case, themselves.

It’s just simply disgusting.

http://solidot.org.feedsportal.com/c/33236/f/556826/s/49c0a5c8/sc/21/l/0L0Ssolidot0Borg0Cstory0Dsid0F45460A/story01.htm

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Oh Amazon...

The New York Times' Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld interviewed over 100 former and current Amazon employees for a fantastic new report out today that reveals just how bad it can get:

"Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk."...

Perhaps worst of all is Amazon's approach when its employees need help. The Times has uncovered several cases where workers who were sick, grieving, or otherwise encumbered by the realities of life were pushed out of the company. A woman who had a miscarriage was told to travel on a business trip the day after both her twins were stillborn. Another woman recovering from breast cancer was given poor performance rankings and was warned that she was in danger of losing her job...

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others...

As The Verge says: I'd think twice when I place an order on Amazon in the future.

I think Amazon has crossed the line. It's just simply gross if everyhting the NYT digged is true, I've been shopping on Amazon even before it's called Amazon here in China, which I recall to be Joyo? And they seem doing a pretty good job for the customers from the outsider's point of view. And the kindle store is booming here as we speak.The oversea-global order systerm is brilliant in my experience. In another word: I trust them.

But not any more, not saying that it's gonna change anything or whatever, but that's the least I can do as a normal, caring human being.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/15/9159309/you-probably-dont-want-to-work-for-amazon http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

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We’ve observed that drivers across multiple forums discuss the fake cars they see on their own residential streets. One driver, who makes regular broadcasts advising drivers about using the Uber system, even made a YouTube video to show other drivers how the app sometimes displays cars that aren’t there.

So Uber has their own way of blowing the pigs to the sky then...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ubers-phantom-cabs?utm_source=mbtwitter

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The safest, most sensible course of action for users is to just keep their music libraries away from iTunes Match and Apple Music. We’ll all just know not to order that fish, and many of us won’t use Apple Music at all because its integration into our local libraries feels too unsafe.

And that’s too bad for everyone, because Apple Music is pretty great when everything works and you can figure out where everything is.

Marco wrote a piece on iTunes. He really shouldn't touch it, cause some parts inside of me die when I try to use iTunes...Every time.

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Don't call me.

I’ve been wondering for all these years what would happen if Apple has made the iPod Touch line on par with iPhones, I mean with the same configuration except for making phone calls(I made 12 phone calls last month, it’s embarrassing that the signal drains half of my battery), like iPad, just put the cellular sim card(or built-in, like some of the iPad Air 2 models) as an option.

I know I might not buy an new iPhone if I live in big cities with considerably good cellular access and reasonable data plan. I’d probably call people with FaceTime Audio or Skype all the time.

And the iPod Touch is so much cheaper.

I guess all I’m saying here is: How much I hate the current telecom system.