Our biggest release this year
@FlightyApp
🏝 Dynamic Island - delays, gate changes, status, countdown, go to gate
🔒 Lock Screen - light/dark, no 14 Pro required
😎 Always-On Display - glanceable colors
📴 Airplane mode - offline progress bar & ETA
→
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)
Just registered a new LLC using Stripe
@Atlas
✓ took 60 seconds
✓ no lawyers, no phone calls
✓ Docs in 4 day
✓ EIN in 7 days
✓ $10k in DigitalOcean credits
✓ cost $500
Wow, that was glorious.
🥴 Imagine…
- spending 11 months on 3 text fields and a progress bar
- truncating the headline
- truncating one letter
- compact variant is your logo
- shipping 32 days before iOS 17
I’m sorry to poke fun. But it has to be said.
Sell your company for $210M after Series D....equals the same net to a Founder as selling for $38M after Seed Round.
That’s a lot of work between Seed and D, for nothing except more return to your VC. 😱
HOLY. FUGGIN. SHIT.
$999 MacBook Air with no fans is:
1) faster single core by 30% than *every Mac ever* (yes including iMac/Mac Pro)
2) faster multi-core than every Mac ever except iMac/Mac Pros with 8+ cores ($5k)
🔥
A shining star is lost – Reddit’s leadership has killed
@apolloreddit
.
@ChristianSelig
has been a professional, kind, and generous leader throughout. But he’s on the hook for $250,000 in refunds.
Tip him $5 by buying “Apollo Pro”:
🫡👾
Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️
We won an Apple Design Award! 🤯
@FlightyApp
design is a combination of
@maarstad
’s sophisticated minimalism and
@ifrins
’s insane engineering talent range. ❤️
It’s official,
@FlightyApp
SURVIVED.
I had quit my job, built for 1.5 yrs, spent savings, had a baby, then…BAM. Global shutdown.
Bankruptcy was the default.
But the product was strong, the team focused long-term, and users stuck with us.
WE BACK! 25% MoM. ✈️
Here’s where doubters are wrong:
- Redditors aren’t going to leave
- Much worse
- They’re going to stay and BURN. IT. ALL. DOWN. around Spez.
This is *Reddit*.
Omg no.
Imagine working at Apple for decades then thinking this is good marketing.
(Explained: What does being in a fashion show convey? Elite. Out of touch. Jewelry. No usage shown… So it’s a pretty but useless object? Cringe.)
iOS 13 small things:
- Low data mode
- Bluetooth splitting
- Emoji key
- Download large apps on cellular
- WiFi in control center home
- Optimized battery charging
Mac apps, off the cuff, in order.
REQUIRED:
Rocket
Divvy
Pastebot
CleanShot
AdGuard
Velja (open links in native apps)
Hush
Soulver
Quitter
GOOD:
Next Meeting
Hazel
MenuWeather+ (AccuWeather in menu bar)
HANDY:
ImgPlay (make GIFs)
VN (edit videos)
Contrast
Bezos just rode by on a scooter. 🤣
100% serious. The richest person in the world, out for a scooter joy ride with three suits. (I live near Whole Foods HQ.)
BREAKING: Facebook SDK will not adopt Apple’s iOS 14 privacy prompt.
Shocking (not at all). Just what Apple needed, another high-stakes game of chicken.
I want this movie app, like if you do too:
I enter movies. You notify me when it hits theaters. If I don’t mark as watched, you notify me when it hits iTunes...then iTunes rental...then on sale...then free to stream (Netflix, Prime, etc),
Watchlist waterfall, by $, that’s it.
🚨 iOS 16.1 Beta 4 has a new payment confirmation screen!
I’ve begged for this for years – Apple can’t control sneaky prices on paywalls, but they can make it super clear here.
Kobe's helicopter was
#N72EX
a high-end executive Sikorky S-76 with custom graphics and Nike swoosh. They circled over Glendale for 11 minutes before heading to Calabasas. :(
#RIPKobeBryant
🚨 iOS 14 catches apps spying on your clipboard. 🚨
Some apps access whatever you copied, silently, just by opening the app. The new iOS feature catches them in the act by notifying you.
Incredible proud of our little team to be an ADA Finalist. 🤗
All credit to
@maarstad
– Flighty’s design is a reflection of him, and
@ifrins
– for dealing with my nitpicking and somehow always overdelivering.
How to control the Dynamic Island with swipes:
- swipe toward center = collapse
- swipe away from center = expand
Even works with 2 activities, and rubber bands when max'ed out.
The camera bump march of time continues.
- iPhone 14 Pro bump is 4.18mm total
- that’s over half the thickness of the *phone body*
- including bump, the 14 Pro is thicker than original iPhone
Cc
@gruber
@siracusa
16. Annnnd there it is: The lawyers will get paid OUT OF THE SMALL DEVELOPERS ASSISTANCE FUND.
$30M of $100M of the SMALL DEVELOPERS ASSISTANCE fund goes to the lawyers. 🤣😆😭 I can’t. This is just too good.
Apple’s weather app is going to be legit.
- dark sky rain
- warmer/cooler alerts
- warning alerts
I'm actually very shocked they already got this Dark Sky stuff in.
(US, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia)
The
@1Password
:: Dropbox metaphors could not be more perfect.
Breakout consumer app → insane organic growth → bottoms up enterprise adoption → taste that enterprise money → can’t look back → enterprise roadmap → death of a good product
🤯 You can FEEL the pressure equalize when you put in AirPods Pro, wow.
👏 And the noise cancelling makes ambient noise SILENT.
😍 But my favorite is Transparency Mode. It’s like a personal soundtrack to the world. Nothing changes, just an extra audio layered added. Holy hell.
I’m gonna read and summarize Apple’s proposed App Store settlement on a class-action lawsuit (not Epic).
Source docs:
Apple’s Press Release
Proposed Settlement to Judge PDF
Mac Pro as-is is certainly dead. The empty tower is SO obviously just cuz Ternus said so.
Mac Pro should just be the highest end Studio, in Space Gray.
@Vyyyper
We spent months on that – pretty much every user goes offline during tracking a flight so it’s gotta still work!
Oh and Pro users get live updates over just the messaging-only free WiFi. 😎
Well… this certainly wasn’t ever the plan or goal, but the stars aligned.
📣 Weather Line is being acquired 📣
✓ All active subs are extended until shutdown for free
✓ No personal data was sold
✓ Service will stay on for 13 months (Apr 1, 2022)
Hahaha hahaha, hahaha. Ha.
MBP battery life problems? Remove the battery percentage.
CPU throttling? Remove the measurement app.
This PR move is tired.
Our
@FlightyApp
widgets came out sooo friggin good.
- During flights you get all your live info.
- Between flights it becomes a countdown to your next getaway.
🆓Widgets are free, plus first 3 flights get Pro with no credit card required.
It costs us a pretty penny and maxes out all our infra, but we’re happy to give away Pro on all flights tomorrow.
It’ll be the busiest travel day of all-time. It’s the least we can do.
Happy Holidays. Thanks for an insane year.
🎁Flighty Pro is FREE on all Dec 22nd flights.
Flighty is here on peak travel day,
to help you get home, without delay!
Alerts and live tracking – it’s all free,
so spread the word with holiday glee!
❤️Flighty Crew
Permalink to Manage Apple Subscriptions:
Text:
#https
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Works on macOS and iOS. It was buried in a WWDC 2018 session.
You can’t get canned demos wrong
@Humane
. 😞
Unsurprisingly, like all their marketing roll out this far, it’s not good. I kinda feel bad for them now. Just not good strategy work.
News: Apple is making a new laptop!
Fans: yyyyyes!
...
Fans: I hope they don’t use their new keyboard. Or the new ports. Or their new TouchBar thing.
Actually if they could add none of the last 3 “innovations”, that would be grrrreat.
... 🤔 That can’t be good.
@waitbutwhy
Airlines don’t know where their planes are.
They buy it from aggregators like FlightAware, who get it from a worldwide network of nerds with sensors in their backyard for fun. (ADSB)
Congrats to
@AllTrails
for winning 2023 iPhone App of the Year!
And to Duolingo for maintain this quality level at $9B mega-scale is an inspiring accomplishment to all.
Thank you to everyone at Apple for recognizing us as a Finalist alongside such insanely successful apps. 🙏