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I love scheduled send. I find it amazing iphones still do not have that extremely basic functionality.
I'm honestly shocked that with all the ways iphone users are supposed to live in a better world than me, they lack this simple, obvious useful ability that the lowliest SMS/MMS user has.
Thanks!
I'm honestly shocked that with all the ways iphone users are supposed to live in a better world than me, they lack this simple, obvious useful ability that the lowliest SMS/MMS user has.
I'm honestly shocked that with all the ways iphone users are supposed to live in a better world than me, they lack this simple, obvious useful ability that the lowliest SMS/MMS user has.
I loathe being forced to use Apple products because there are so many of these simple missing features.
If you don’t have an Apple computer but have an iOS device, you can also do something similar with the “Shortcuts.app” + “Calendar.app”. I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the…
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I loathe being forced to use Apple products because there are so many of these simple missing features.
I’m not sure how you are in any way forced to use Apple products
It's difficult to get most people to switch to something else and impossible to get old people to do it.
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If given the choice between writing AppleScript or Python I'm picking Python. Maybe Python can generate my AppleScript is really as close as I want to be to AppleScript.
Not me—give me AppleScript. I get that it’s fashionable to rag on AppleScript. But for this particular use case—a scriptable app on macOS—AppleScript is the way to go.
I will gladly take Python instead and use it. A language used by millions to do almost anything with a vast amount of the code being written being shared not just the language and modules.
I do not have the time or interest to play with Apples little locked down language to keep their walled garden looking pretty.
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Comment is removed but my guess is that he's talking about the general very old flame war style stuff like "M$" and "Microshill" and "Crapple" etc. The "us vs them" mentality of computing.
No, I read it as son as it got posted, before it was removed and there was nothing about "crapple" in it or anything objectively ofensive or that broke HN rules. The removed comment was basically along the lines of "when people say the word computer, they generally don't think of Apple" referring in this context to the fact that the app written by OP said it requires a "computer", giving the impression it's cross pla…
That is true of most of the organizations that have a large representation here on HN. A ton of people here work for those companies, the federal government or companies that directly contract (and depend) on those companies.
While I don't mind much if someone disagrees with me on HN I do notice that conversations surrounding certain topics, groups or companies get essentially brigaded and as a byproduct of that I typically avoid those discussions here.
I figure if the echo chamber wants/needs to talk to each other about how great Apple or Google is I just ignore it and it happen. Sure, there will be a post in a few weeks about how the same company stole their data or made them into a product, but they'll forget that and go back to singing corporate praise soon enough.
When real products or innovations come around you can see the way people react on the site as genuine. I look for those kinds of conversations and topics. If you ever get bored and want to be entertained go check out some of the hilariously bad product launches either Apple or Google have done and then go back and look at some of the conversations on HN about it.
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No, I read it as son as it got posted, before it was removed and there was nothing about "crapple" in it or anything objectively ofensive or that broke HN rules. The removed comment was basically along the lines of "when people say the word computer, they generally don't think of Apple" referring in this context to the fact that the app written by OP said it requires a "computer", giving the impression it's cross pla…
I think there's just as much unreasonably anti-Apple activity on HN as there is pro-Apple -- if you think otherwise (in either direction), it's probably your bias showing.
But, they're "dug in" and they can't "un-Apple" all their stuff. They spend extra to buy a product that has components they think has serious problems that is operated and ran by a company that they routinely participate in discussions about them doing things at bad faith like killing webapps.
Also as someone who has done a few different product launches on HN you can tell instantly when you start getting metrics about page visits that HN skews extremely Apple. Your UA logs will be dominated by Safari and iOS agents as the hits come in from HN.