I believe the core apps have so much tech debt / tentacles throughout the OS that sadly they will never get to having say Messages update from the App Store. For example, the new Messages can pop up Photos overlay to generate a sticker. This would need to be an API to see if you have the latest Photos app with the sticker capability.
Maybe, but for Apple yearly releases are just free PR. It wouldn’t be terribly difficult to write “if photos.app doesn’t have getStickerablePhotos API, tell user to update”
We have recently bought newly built 2 story house (140m2) with the heat pump and foor heating completely insulated. Our electricity consumption is 600 KWh per month including heating end everything else. We keep thermostat at 20 degrees centigrade. Is the consumption too high or normal for the house of this size and configuration?
That sounds about right if you've got the thermostat at 20 degrees constantly; I live in a 700~ sq ft apartment and consume around 300kwh/pm; 10% of that is an inefficient NAS I built from old parts and I hardly use the heaters because god almighty are electric heaters inefficient.
Assuming you are in western Europe, I'd say for 140m2 it seems a bit more than okay, depending on how much windows you have. And depending how north you are. And depending on your usage (WFH, cooking...), it can be great.
Depends on the outside temp too. Best to monitor SCOP. My 180 m2 house with 18 degrees inside in January w ground souce heat pump (IVT Geo 508) and normal radiators ->
While this does seem a bit high, it’s worth bearing in mind two things. One, most other places price sales tax into the advertised total, which doesn’t happen in the US. For UK prices, that’s 20% right there. Two, to prevent constantly floating prices, they need to fix a price at a decent hedge against currency fluctuations. This should be all the more understandable given the recent volatility in forex rates.
Yeah but Samsung compensate for that sort of thing and actually take a hit in their margins to lower prices in certain markets. Apple doesn’t care, it clearly isn’t selling to price sensitive clients in non US markets, because its prices are insane. Particularly in countries like South Africa and Brazil.
