No need for a magnetic dongle. I literally shove a USB-C cable in there, charge for a couple of hours, then get a week+ of use. Does step count, notifactions, calls, etc.
There's more to the world than Apple and Android watches.
I have one and it's such a fantastic design. When I need to travel I just throw a tiny puck in my bag and it charges off the same brick that charges everything else I bring.
I'm as concerned about the surveillance state as anyone but let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too and it was still true that for many, many places cash was fine. Cash discounts are super common in various parts of the city and this was still true during COVID.
> let's keep our history constrained by fact. I live in Toronto too
This is hilarious. Toronto has no respect for facts, it has shown it will just fabricate histories out of whole cloth.
Nevertheless I'm tired of people citing anecdata and personal experience when upthread I have linked to a CBC article discussing a Bank of Canada report "arguing that cash-based transactions have plummeted from 54 per cent in 2009 to 10 per cent as of 2021."
What you're describing is not "broken", it's the process and it appears it hasn't even failed for you.
My experience with getting a verified "business" developer account from Google mirrors the experience as getting one from Apple, except it's a one-time fee and much less than Apple.
Yes there are hoops to jump through, identification usually requires some hoops, but pretty it's straightforward. I am not commenting on the requirements of these hoops, yes, it's BS that they exist but it's their platform so it's their rules.
What type of "experience" are you expecting to have anyway?
With Apple I filled the forms, accepted the agreements, entered the DUNS and paid with a card on my name and that was it.
How does that mirror uploading my passport many times, entering company details many times, typing my e-mail and phone numbers many times both because I had to start over and because I was asked many times even if I provided these some steps back? Now I paid and waiting, hopefully I will later be verifying my e-mail address or something that I verified a few times prior.
> What type of "experience" are you expecting to have anyway?
The Apple experience. An experience that is well thought and streamlined, that doesn’t keep me entering the same information over and over again. I don’t mind paying a little more for well designed products. The $75 difference is nothing to justify this charade, I don’t think that that Google was short of $75 and designed this low quality experience, I think it’s engraver in their DNA.
I login/unlock my password manager maybe...a dozen times a week and that would be a high count when I'm doing "business" and logging in for financial things.
End-to-end usually means only the data's owner (aka the customer) holds the keys needed. The term most used across password managers and similar tools is "zero knowledge encryption", where only you know the password to a vault, needed to decrypt it.
There's a "data encryption key", encrypted with a hash derived of your username+master password, and that data encryption key is used locally to decrypt the items of your vault. Even if everything is stored remotely, unless the provider got your raw master password (usually, a hash of that is used as the "password" for authentication), your information is totally safe.
A whole other topic is communications, but we're talking decryption keys here
That was also my first impression when I saw the site. The color scheme in general looked more like "boring b2b SaaS" and not a personal budgeting app and not really something where I'd look forward to spending a lot of time in (Which ideally you should in a budgeting app).
I think it could benefit from a personal, playful kind of touch to appeal to more mainstream users.
Indeed. The capitalization and punctuation inconsistencies are a huge turn off. My instinct was that people behind the software don’t have attention to detail.
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