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Ryan Jones
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Ryan Jones
@rjonesy
Founder CEO @Flighty App of the Year Finalist • Sold @weatherlineapp • Alum @dukeu @apple • Product, strategy, curiosity.
- Unsolicited advice for @MKBHD: - Put "MKBHD" in the app subtitle! - For your audience, Free option is necessary, but reframe as "HD" and "Upgrade to 4K". SD is never "MKBHD" and feels punitive. - Allow subs the *option* of a blended MKBHD symbol added tastefully to wallpapers -
- Reddit CEO Spez just put their IPO and his job on deathwatch. 1. email company “no revenue impact, this will pass”🤦♂️ 2. email leaks, duh 3. 25-50% of Mods extend blackout indefinitely, duh 4. revenue drops 25-50% 5. investors lose CEO faith 6. no IPO He has ~48h to save it.Full memo here makes clear that Reddit isn’t backing down from its API changes. Language from Huffman implies there is tremendous pressure to boost revenue (company recently did layoffs)
- 🚨 iOS 11 *FORCES* option for GPS access “Only While Using the App” even when apps don’t offer it! Suck it Uber.
- Tech press is missing the ennntire point of iPhone Air. It’s literally just a manufacturing test – for the foldable iPhone next year. Thinness isn’t a relevant feature – 97% use cases anyway! Why isn’t it named “17 Air”? Cuz there won’t be an 18 Air. [AI image]
- Apple just edited the App Store rules, to comply. - apps can link out - apps can encourage use of alternate payment methods That’s it. The floodgates are open.
- *ANY* time a background app uses your location in iOS 11 the blue bar is on. This is going to crush entire businesses.
- Flighty 3.0 tomorrow! “Friends for flying” finally done right. 🥳 Our biggest release, risk, and lift yet. Nervous. Excited. Ready…
- My notes on the Apple Intelligence all hands meeting: - not held by JG, Tim, or Craig - AI only works 66-80% of the time (that's VERY low, the last 20% is 80% of the work, even 95% is un-shippable) So it basically didn't exist at WWDC. Ouch. - also blamed MarCom, fairly, for the
- Is it a good sign when families wall mount an iPad just for your app?
