Oh no I just bought this but then I looked at the instructions... It's not for the faint of heart to do this for every app.
Six Figures in 6 days
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#252It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons into the new sprite file inside the app package. I saw other people complaining online so I posted the updated resource file on my $5/mo shared hosting and put a link on a forum...…
That was you! Thank you so much! I still use iTunes 10, with the coloured icons. I just can't move on from the mini player, 18 years of play counts/last played, AppleScript, offline USB sync with an iPhone 4S, and of course your coloured icons. I even had to make my own RSRC edits with Themepark to show the icons correctly on Retina, based on your work. I'm not mad at you; I'm grateful for keeping the best music play…
That’s awesome–glad it was helpful back in the day! Honestly I totally agree about iTunes 10, I‘ve come to mostly dislike the current iTunes but never thought to try downgrading. I still maintain my iTunes library with play counts and metadata going back to 2003, but find myself reaching for Spotify first these days.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. On the other hand we had 1/10 less mallware, faster UIs, updates for older devices up to several years, and other small things since day one which Android still doesn't have :-)
If you're gonna rehash the iOS vs android flamewar at leat use up to date arguments...
All 3 items I've mentioned are still issues that plague Android in 2020, so there's that...
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#254How do these idea even pop into ones head? How can I start hustling? I’m a simple pleb engineer at FAANG, but want to get rich quick.
Lots of practice, learning, and failure. This guy got a great combination of product/market fit, timing, and exposure. Finding product/market fit is a skill trainable like anything else (although an incredibly difficult skill to master), timing is just that (plenty of luck involved - but easier with product/market fit). Finally: exposure is easy with the first two - if you have solved a hot problem really well, of co…
But I have the mindset that icons aren't worth a god damn dime yet 100k.
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#255He forgot the most important lesson: be lucky :)
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#256> So I quickly packaged them, uploaded them to Gumroad, and embedded them on a Notion site using Super. All of this took about two hours. Love the software stack. Is this the norm these days? Am I out of touch with web tech?
It's not a development stack, it's more of a product stack. It's like saying you opened a shopify store and made a page with blogger in 2 hours.
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I'm referring to features that were in Android and later implemented on iOS - presumably those are desired features, and at some point Android had it and iOS didn't. There's likely features that Android has today that will at some point be implemented in iOS in the future. Yet those features aren't enough to encourage switching. (For context, I'm writing this not as an Android fanboy, but as an 11-year iPhone user, t…
This is true, but for the most part the Android features come earlier but are very poorly thought out and usually have usability issues which prevent people from using them effectively. In contrast Apple usually waits a couple of years and ends up releasing something that solves the problem in a usable way. Let's talk about cameras specifically. Samsung has this "burst mode" feature which lets you take 100 or 200 sho…
For sure. Apple can get market research for free by just waiting.
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#258Meta rant: Why, oh why do people use low contrast colors and expect people to be able to read their blog? Has nobody heard about accessibility? Or do they not care, because “I can read it”.
When I was a teen white text on black was easy to read and cool. I remember my dad making a comment about how it was hard to read and a bit incredulous that I was fine with it. As I got older, not so much in certain contexts. The author is probably young.
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Nothing like free users when it comes to entitlement. I think this is mostly because they don't realize which companies are large and which are small or even just hobby projects, it is trivial to appear much larger than you are on the web.
A lot of free users also simply have no concept of how much effort something takes since they've never done it themselves, and by extension have no concept of what that effort translates to in zero cost labor. It's something I see a lot in the maker side of the world with things like 3d printable files.
This is really it. I just came here from the /r/arduino subreddit where I was shaking my head at the guy who was "lol, someone want to write me some free code" (that would be easily thousands of $$ if it was a project at my day job).
Maybe the problem is that we make things look so easy that no one realizes how difficult and/or time-consuming producing code is.
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> The key to a success of this type is luck. What an odd mentality. No, the key to success is skill , with effort (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally "good" at things, or put in the same effort, and that it's mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.
Kylie Jenner was proclaimed the "youngest self-made billionaire" by Forbes magazine. Remind me, what is her skill or talent again?
Making money is quite a valuable skill.