Raimundo Arriagada

[Shacknews @shacknews]

Hayao Pop Off Appreciation Mash Up Highlight Reel @ EVO 2024 🫡 #EVO #FGC #EVO2024

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

La verdad es que no

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@Nightradio beautiful app! <3 working perfectly as AUv3 in AUM

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@gavinski_s @Nightradio just press one note + FAC Alteza.
A never-ending ambient pads

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@camkida @netflix lmao

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@sbstngdy Que bueno se ve eso, compa. Me imagino que el postre será con unas fichitas de Poker....

[Gavinski’s Tutorials @gavinski_s]

A short(ish) rant about some appstore pricing models

Looking over the last few days at some photo editing apps I have some thoughts regarding the whole subscription model saga. There are A LOT of photography apps that used to be fairly cheap one-off purchases. The same goes for lots of productivity apps. (See Voice Dream Reader which I bought a few years ago for 10 bucks and which now costs something like 100 bucks for an annual subscription after its dev sold it to new owners.)

Anyway, many apps that used to be one-off purchases went down the subscription route.

Many that started with reasonably cheap subscriptions have increased their prices quite a lot. For example when Darkroom turned subscription, in 2020, it was $3.99 a month or $19.99 a year. It didn't even have a one-off purchase option but later introduced that.

Now, just 3 years later, here's the current subscription pricing:

Monthly Subscription = $6.99 ($83.88 per year)
Yearly Subscription = $32.99 ($2.75 per month)

But the really heinous thing is that, as a response to how unpopular subscriptions have become, a lot of these apps started to offer one time purchases but at very high prices.

Darkroom, as mentioned above, now offers a onetime purchase at $74.99

Photomator is $99.99 for a lifetime purchase.

It needn't even be mentioned that these are not really apps that provide a service with masses of constant new content, like Netflix does.

And... Is there any guarantee that they won't at some point decide to bring out a Photomator 2 or a Darkroom 2 which will be much better than the original and once again offer a new one time purchase price? Will the devs maybe initially not offer a lifetime purchase so they can get a few years of subs out of loyal customers before later offering them a lifetime purchase 'deal'? 😂

It would actually be easy enough to spend as much as you paid for an iPad on lifetime purchases for a handful of photography apps. Madness.

App prices being too cheap is not sustainable. But how is it sustainable for many apps to try to be charging these kinds of prices? And why would people want to pay a very expensive lifetime purchase in a crowded niche such as photography, where better takes on older apps by new devs are emerging all the time? Why would you pay almost $100 per app for a lifetime purchase of a handful of apps that seriously might not even be available any more 5 or 10 years from now? How many apps will really stand the test of time and continue to be leaders in their field decades from now?

Knowing that many devs follow this model of starting cheap and getting expensive later, wouldn't the rational thing to do be to wait for a good new app which is trying to find its feet by charging a cheap one-off fee, knowing that it will one day be gouging the unlucky ones who didn't buy in early?

Oh - another thing worth noting: observe how many 'Best X Apps' featured on appstore lists are subscription models. Of course it's in Apple's interest to push subscription apps, since they are getting a regular income from this too. Plays well with the shareholders. But like many things that go down well with shareholders, this is zero guarantee that it will be good for the long term health of the ecosystem. In fact, the rule seems often to be that the opposite is usually true.

#apps #appstore #subscriptions

[Maca @unamacarron]

Mi abuelo, el bombero del centro de la nota.
¡Qué orgullo!
@duodecimacbs12

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA backed coup in Chile that led to decades of dictatorship and the murder/torture/disappearance of thousands. An honor to be invited by Chile’s president Gabriel Boric to the memorial festivities. #VictorJaraLives!!

[Cam @lensisle]

I’m extremely proud to share that we are going to release our game @lgdays on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox thanks to @SerenityForge. It’s been a long but a fun journey.

I'm also gonna be at @pax tomorrow presenting our game at the LGD booth. Say hi if you're around!

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@farratia Deben ser de los mejores discos del fámoso "Nu-metal" de la época.
Tengo el Hybrid Theory en CD desde que salió y Meteora, de los primeros discos que se filtró por Internet como una semana antes.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon.

Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM.

Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor.

With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets.

While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile.

I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid.

Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys.

For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is.

Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born.

It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off.

Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI.

Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage.

People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all.

We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen.

I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist.

We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome.

We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime.

18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

[Herbie Hancock @herbiehancock]

Wayne Shorter, my best friend, left us with courage in his heart, love and compassion for all, and a seeking spirit for the eternal future. He was ready for his rebirth. As it is with every human being, he is irreplaceable . . .

[Brian Blade @BrianBlade]

Happy New Year! Check out the new episode of Norah Jones Is Playing Along Podcast where Norah hosts guest BrianBlade
https://t.co/Zc07nebCtV

The Mama Rosa re-issue presale is up on https://t.co/mmJxkW75Mc

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@nespinozap chuño + ajinomoto. Es como el agi/bless de la época pal mongoliano/chapsuí

[Fundación América Transparente @a_transparente]

Vitacura: Como nos han llegado muchas preguntas sobre este caso y el mecanismo para sacar la plata y cómo es que la Contraloría no se dio cuenta, etc. Es que vamos con un hilo explicativo sobre cómo funcionan las entidades Vita y qué pasó.

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@sbstngdy Con qué lo espero, maestro? <3

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@sbstngdy anda con cuidao' ql!

[Raimundo Arriagada @__R41_]

@farratia cumpliendo toda expectativa y con creces. Que conciertazo que se mandaron!

[Portico Quartet @porticoquartet]

Hi everyone. We just wanted to highlight a really special intimate show next week. Our very own Milo Fitzpatrick is playing St Pancras Old Church on the 24th Nov with his wonderful project Vega Trails. Hope to see you there. Tickets and details below:

https://t.co/zqM6an9OPf