∞ Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail
Happy 20th birthday, Gmail!
Sure Apple, we now have https://apps.apple.com/us/vision.
But how about actually show all the categories available and give us the ability to browse non-featured apps?
There is still no way to find Mango 5Star 🤷🏻♂️
Indie App Sales, March 2024 Edition
Indie App Sales is back again with a March 2024 edition! More than 250 indie apps are participating, and of course it includes the ones under the Mango Umbrella:
- 👶🏻 Mango Baby Lifetime $9.99 -> $4.99 https://apps.apple.com/app/mango-baby-newborn-tracker/id1512238725
- ⭐ Mango 5Star $2.99 -> $0.99 https://apps.apple.com/app/mango-5star/id1473088658
- 📸 Mango Exposure Remove Ads $1.99 -> $0.99 https://apps.apple.com/app/mango-exposure-the-calculator/id1487020105
Head over to indieappsales.com to discover the rest of the apps.
Rest in Peace, Akira Toriyama
From Bird Studio's statement today:
Dear Friends and Partners,
We are deeply saddened to inform you that Manga creator Akira Toriyama passed away on March 1st due to acute subdural hematoma. He was in age of 68.
Akira Toriyama's work has been a significant part of my childhood. May your soul rest in peace.
Update on 2024-03-10: App Store published a story remembering Akira Toriyama with a collection of apps and games featuring his works and characters: https://apps.apple.com/story/id1734943876.
Mango Is the King of Fruit - Phil
A great quote from Somebody Feed Phil.
I'm in total agreement with Phil. Also, his smile is so infectious!
∞ Movie: The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
I'm giving the movie 4/5 ⭐
One hour later I'm still in shock. It's too damn dark.
∞ Analysis: Clean Energy Was Top Driver of China’s Economic Growth in 2023
Lauri Myllyvirta and Qi Qin from CREA wrote a guest post for CarbonBrief:
Solar power, along with manufacturing capacity for solar panels, EVs and batteries, were the main focus of China’s clean-energy investments in 2023, the analysis shows.
Without the growth from clean-energy sectors, China’s GDP would have missed the government’s growth target of “around 5%”, rising by only 3.0% instead of 5.2%.
I went back to China last year for a month. I saw so, so many EVs.
i may not have pre-ordered Vision Pro today,
but January 19, 2024 is still important to me,
that Mango Umbrella LLC is formed 🥭
∞ Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find
Beth Mole writes for Ars Technica,
Private equity firms are increasingly buying hospitals across the US, and when they do, patients suffer, according to two separate reports. Specifically, the equity firms cut corners, slash services, lay off staff, lower quality of care, take on substantial debt, and reduce charity care, leading to lower ratings and more medical errors, the reports collectively find.
We need more reports like this, and more media attention.
∞ Just Do What You're Excited About
Simon Peng from his Robot Fan Club newsletter,
The other way I find I can motivate myself to start is by looking for inspiration not in other people's work, but in the people themselves.
This is very true for me. I'm often motivated by other people. This effect doesn't last long for me though, and I have to consistently remind myself about other people's existence to keep the motivation up.
To me, the lesson here is to be inspired by excitement. Be inspired by the ability people have to be energized into action.
There's a place in our lives for being moved to create by the profundity of great works of art, but more often I feel people hold great works up as an excuse not to make something. They'll fall short. They'll fail. They don't know where to start.
Instead, look at all the things people do in spite of these feelings and embrace that bold rejection of the box that you're in. Often we put ourselves in that box to help us articulate who we are to others. Often we put ourselves there to help explain who we are to ourselves. But we're always more than that. We're people. We can do whatever we want. So shouldn't we do what excites us?
Maybe excitement is the key here? Tonight, I'm very excited to get a visionOS build for Mango 5Star. And I'm just doing that.
What excites you?