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Ben Sandofsky

Excited to announce that Kino is a finalist for 2024 iPhone App of the Year! #AppStoreAwards

We're honored to be among these nominees: apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/app

Kino icon below "App Store Awards 2024 Finalist."
Ben Sandofsky

The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.

I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.

A permission prompt:

"Halide" would like to access the camera. The camera will be used to take photographs.
Ben Sandofsky

This was one of those rejections where they're like, "If this is a bug fix, we can accept it for now, but you need to fix this in your next update."

We replied, "Yes, please approve, we'll fix it." 36 hours later, they approved, but we still need to deal with this.

Ben Sandofsky

I wrote four thousand words on the follies of Humane, theories of what happened, and why you can't build Apple within the Venture Capital system. Enjoy.

sandofsky.com/humane/

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Drew McCormack

@sandofsky Good read. Thanks! Interesting ending about the VP. Wondering if even Apple can’t do Apple anymore. Feels more AppleTV than iPhone.

Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻

@sandofsky Phenomenonal read, thank you. I do appreciate big swings and thinking that tries to move the ball forward but Humane didn’t really know where it was going all along. I can see how it’s easy to get frustrated inside Apple but trying to replicate it is a fool’s errand

Doug

@sandofsky “the firm millions of dollars a year off of it” seems to be missing a word

Ben Sandofsky

Apple’s worst product? Ex-employees who make their whole identity, “Apple lost its way.” It gives off the cringiest, “she didn’t dump me, I dumped her,” vibes.

Mike

@sandofsky same with products marketed as made by a” former Apple engineer” for me.

sam henri gold

@sandofsky I ain’t pointing fingers but I’m looking REALLY hard at one guy who “invented autocorrect” and another that sells AI snake oil and claims to be a protege of Jobs.

Ben Sandofsky

Men will start a PR war with Apple over an app rejection instead of going to therapy.

Ben Sandofsky

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

An electronic billboard.
The billboard blocked by sunglasses.
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𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗

@sandofsky That's if you're lucky. The polarization angle of the glasses may be different and it is not certain that it will coincide with the polarization angle of the monitor.

Ben Sandofsky

South Colorado at sunset, shot on film.

Colorado mountains at sunset.
Will Clark

@sandofsky Somewhere near Durango? Maybe more like Saguache?

Ben Sandofsky

Some personal news: after 14 years, I’m leaving the Bay Area. Some of my favorite shots over the years…

Golden Gate Bridge.
Zoetrope building in SF.
Lombard street in SF.
The bay bridge lights at night.
Ben Sandofsky

I’ve spent over 19 years in California. Going to miss the beauty.

The Yosemite firefall.
Lake take at night, under the stars
Point Reyes shipwreck.
McWay falls in Big Sur.
Ben Sandofsky

Mastodon has cracked the top ten social networking apps in the App Store. For context, Signal is at 15.

Screenshot of the App Store.
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Proud2B🇨🇦ian🙂

@sandofsky
Signal is a secure messaging app, not a social networking app.

David Mitchell

@sandofsky Mammoth is worth testing during its beta. Really nice and modern client. Likely to convert more bird users when it’s released. testflight.apple.com/join/66c1

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