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That's at most a double-click followed by a single click. The second or so this takes is nothing compared to the time it takes to actually connect to the meeting.
I love all the comments about the price. It lets me know people really think this looks great and would work for them, but they are just off-put by the price. Stick to the price, the ones that sign up will be loyal. Adjust later if need be. Good job. It seems to scratch an itch.
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What do you have against electron?
Electron apps don’t really look or work right on a Mac.
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Electron apps don’t really look or work right on a Mac.
There is plenty of reasons to not like Electron apps, but that they don't look right is not one of them, as Electron apps don't come with any styling built-in, it's all up to the developers of the apps to style things.
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There is plenty of reasons to not like Electron apps, but that they don't look right is not one of them, as Electron apps don't come with any styling built-in, it's all up to the developers of the apps to style things.
Yeah, that’s the problem: I don’t want to use apps written in frameworks that let the developer style the basic controls. If I’m ok a Mac, I want to see Mac buttons, dropdowns, etc. and I want them to be provided by the OS so I can rely on OS services working: the Cocoa input system is pretty sophisticated and I inevitably run into edge cases with attempts to emulate it in electron apps.
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Yeah, that’s the problem: I don’t want to use apps written in frameworks that let the developer style the basic controls. If I’m ok a Mac, I want to see Mac buttons, dropdowns, etc. and I want them to be provided by the OS so I can rely on OS services working: the Cocoa input system is pretty sophisticated and I inevitably run into edge cases with attempts to emulate it in electron apps.
I see. I take it you never use a browser either then? Because most of the web apps don't have Mac styling, AFAIK.
Let me get this straight. $10 a month of a calendar widget that's only available for a single platform? Plus, these quotes don't really help. > “No more looking for the Google calendar tab in Chrome.” Maybe use the native calendar app then? Or make an app shortcut for Google Calendar in Chrome? > “I just joined a meeting 3 minutes late instead of 5 because of Superpowered, which is a resounding success in my book.” U…
Being mac-only does not really affect the pricing. Most mac users only use mac, and so for them it wouldn't be worth more if it was also available for PC. HAving said that, the price is ridiculous.
Mac and PC haven’t been the only two platforms in a long time.
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This should be a very high priority issue. The more features you'll add, the harder it'll be to perform any heavy optimizations without rewriting major parts. ~150MB is a huge memory footprint for something that just sits in my menubar idle. Not all Macs have >16GBs of RAM (and even if they did, this is pretty wasteful). I'm also concerned about the battery life. I'm pretty sure you'll eventually reach a point where…
I don’t think it should be very high priority for them. They’re a startup, they need to focus on the fastest and most effective way to create value for their users, today. No point optimising the product if the company dies before it starts slowing down.
I suspect the effect will be that Apple gets hate for not making fast enough computers with enough battery life, and people reluctantly spend another $1500 on a laptop after 2 years because it's too slow.
My advice to the company would be that their target device is almost certainly the base model MacBook Air with 8GB RAM running Slack, a large Excel spreadsheet, and Chrome with 100 tabs of Gmail and documents, and that if they aren't _lightning_ fast on that now they need to optimise soon, because they'll get slower over time.