My wife actually uses Google Maps a lot for restaurants and places to go when we are traveling outside our country, but not for navigation. I find that funny, since this is a Maps app after all.
As for navigations it's either Apple Maps or Waze, depending on the country.
In a lot of cities (think Asia, Europe) GMaps is still significantly better.
Especially for walking and in less common places.
In Ghent, Belgium, Apple Maps wanted to let me walk a ~20min detour and follow car streets whereas GMaps correctly allowed me to walk on pedestrian-only roads.
GMaps is usually better for the social aspect: reviews at restaurants, places, etc.
But for walking outside cities, both are really terrible. Mapy.cz (previously maps.me) is an order of magnitude better
And for driving, Waze is usually the best. Police controls will be shown, and in some countries, especially outside EU + US, Waze is better at finding a car road, while GMaps may sugges a shortcut through a river.
I found the opposite to be true in many European cities including Brussels, London, Cologne, and especially Antwerp where the metro tram network was fatally error-laden on Google Maps.
Yeah EU is stricter, but for lot of my clients US is a large market, without they themselves being in the US. If you are EU based then it's cheaper to pay EU tax and not US tax.
I love my M1 MacBook Air for iOS development. One thing, I'd like to have from Pro line is the screen, and just the PPI part. While 120Hz is a nice thing to have, it won't happen on Air laptops.
It depends. Apple pays VAT on your behalf, so you don’t have to do anything.
If, let’s say another service does not do that, you have to pay it your self, but MOSS[1] exist for that, which means that you’ll pay for your local tax agency, and it will distribute VAT payments per country.
Secret inbox is just what I've been looking for! Having to log into Fastmail to get to this information is kind of a hassle, so I can't wait to try this out. Great job!
- Win10 / 11 seem to be more and more crabby about talking to SMB shares, so I reasoned I needed to be able to exert more control over the file server. I can't tell you for my old nas how many times after a reboot I found myself running "net start mrxsmb10".
- Much of my professional life has been on the Windows stack, so when things aren't working right, I can troubleshoot it a lot more efficiently. Think: Sysinternals tools.
- I get free windows licenses through my MSDN through work, so it didn't cost me anything.
- It's nice to have an RDP host I can use to have some separation from my work stuff.
- I had some existing software licenses on stuff that only runs on windows: PlayOn, Twonky, TVersity. It turns out these older versions of PlayOn and TVersity are mostly useless these days.
As for navigations it's either Apple Maps or Waze, depending on the country.