Depends on what it is. Apps absolutely shouldn't be geo-blocked. While I agree that other media shouldn't be geo-blocked, it's more to do with distribution rights and licensing deals and isn't really something Apple can solve for directly, save to support banning the practice in the EU. The EU needs to focus on Hollywood for movies and the music industry to deal with that.
Yeah, I'm more talking about the credit card discrimination specifically. I have an Apple account for Ireland that I can't add my German credit card to. Although I would love the EU to enforce a singular EU media distribution region / market somehow.
Seemed that way, in my case at least they only really checked the passports. Doubt they'd notice or care if one brings a trunkload full of GPUs across the border.
I once used an angle grinder in a reckless way, without proper protection. It went bad and they had to stitch me back together in the emergency room. I didn't have to pay anything, Techniker Krankenkasse covered everything.
How would you feel if i would have continued my reckless use of the device? I would surely end up in the hospital again. The wages for the medical staff have to come from somewhere.
This whole mechanism indirectly makes other TK insured people pay for my own recklessness.
I’d understand it as an inherent consequence of a socialised healthcare system and, because this isn’t my first day, know that policing for the purpose of reducing socialised healthcare burden is ultimately nonsensical and futile because there’s simply no appropriately place to ‘draw the line’.
If you aren’t for paying to remedy behaviour that someone considers ‘reckless’ then you don’t truly believe in socialised healthcare, because everyone has a different idea of “reckless”, and beyond that, socialised healthcare that doesn’t cover people living life to its fullest isn’t really socialised healthcare.
All you’re really doing is having realisation about your true political leanings. This really has nothing to do with the original topic.
I think you answered your own question by admitting that you no longer used the device recklessly after that event. Clearly money was not the factor in helping you learn the lesson.
Our bodies have a built-in mechanism to discourage recklessness, which is pain. That is the cost of recklessness, and all adding financial costs does is make people who genuinely do need medical attention think twice about getting it.
It's astonishing me how bad the Grindr tech is and how abusive the company is and yet it still persists as the most popular gay hookup app. I mean this company was selling people's HIV status to advertisers and yet we still use it.
>It's astonishing me how bad the Grindr tech is and how abusive the company is and yet it still persists as the most popular gay hookup app.
I wonder why the other big apps don't use their own tech to make a separate gay hookup app. The only thing I can see, other than possibly anti-gay bias, is that they see the market as not being worthwhile financially due to other reasons.
there are plenty of competing apps.
they simply don't have the install base grindr has. it was the first to market well before tinder.
other apps do exist particularly in central and eastern europe with local tech and install bases but they don't have the same reach.
also it's a bit disingenuous to call grindr a dating app, it's almost purely a sex hookup app but they would rather pretend it's something else entirely.
I think it's due to the toxicity of dating apps in general. But Grindr gets more freedom to treat users poorly since the overall user success rate is better than on mixed sites like Tinder, at least in the short term. It's also tougher to find someone IRL without an app when you're in the 5%. They have a captive audience for now.
People keep using the apps because it's overwhelmingly the easiest way to date/whatever, which is a really high priority in the life of a lot of people, and they're going to use the apps with the best results even if it feels sort of shitty to do so.
That messages transition several months ago was one of the worst things they have ever done (and they have done a lot of poor updates).
Sucks that it still feels like a necessary evil just due to its user base. I continue to have conflicted feelings on paying for xtra. I hate it, but it's such a horrible experience without it.
The value of dating software products is not the product at all. It's the people on it. Undoubtably, there are numerous apps/sites that are better engineered, with a better user experience, than Grindr.
In fact, some are very popular, like Tinder and Hinge. But they don't swallow up Grindr, because Grindr is still the place with the most gay men. The value of the app is 90% in that.
There is SOME merit to it, too. Certainly, being closeted is easier on Grindr versus Tinder/Hinge, and that might describe the majority of gay men. Grindr also gives the user much, much more control and information. You don't have to swipe, you can just approach, like you're at a bar.
That can only work when there's a commitment to treat customers well. Otherwise, it's just a user base waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. And that's most likely a dating giant that will use the brand in an attempt to milk profit from the users in the least pleasant way possible. It isn't a technical problem.
Frankly, given our demography, we can probably bootstrap the app and focus on minimizing the costs as much as we can. Then try to scale it accordingly with a focus on salaries, rather than investor payouts. It does sound possible in my head, other than grassroots marketing. Would need some people who has some experience in growing the customer base though. So yeah, treating the customer base with respect would be a priority.
To my understanding, everyone uses X because everyone else is on X. Give them the opportunity that you can see almost unlimited people on the grid, manage spam, and pic sharing, it might be possible. The last 2 aren’t easy problems to solve though. Getting the first few thousand users isn’t easy either, but practically free and not user hostile UX, would make a lot of people consider it.
If enough people don’t use it, than people will just download it and see that no one uses it and never open it again.
Really the only other app with a serious enough use is Scruff. By nearly every metric it is a better app and does some really good things. But even being on both and basically bouncing between the 2 most of my conversations end up on Grindr.
There is another web app that has gained serious traction for offering a… unique value proposition but I am purposefully not going to name it here so someone doesn’t look it up and see something they don’t want to see. (I will just say there is a reason it’s a web app instead of an actual app)
I am pretty sure we all know the web app you're talking about. It's gaining traction, but because of the direct nature of it, I don't see it becoming as big as Grindr. With regards to Scruff, I agree, and I'm not sure why it hasn't gotten the same attention as the former. Maybe the type of people it tries to attract?
I still think, if there was an app that was completely free, and optimized for cost reduction with very unobtrusive ads, it could get somewhere. Right now the pricing levels are atrocious, and there's a scratch for the people to stop using it because of it, in addition to hostile UX.
Profiteers had no problem. Vapers had no problem. The government had a problem.
This shows democracy actually working IMO. You elect people you trust and then they do the right thing despite individual people not doing that collectively.
The Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar".
Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.
And in Germanic mythology the personification of the sun is Sól.
In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity
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