I’m in Canada. I’ve had a couple of Kobos and I’ve loved every single one of them. The Kobo bookstore works fine. No complaints.

Yes. But to be fair there are plenty of websites that are bad enough they’re not adapted for me to be able to use it.

A subreddit or forum like this is a good resource:

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/

But it turns every decision into an exhausting research and optimization project.

Canada too.

I only have WhatsApp installed for when I leave the country.

It depends on your social circle obviously. I had a single person I used iMessage with no but we since switched to SMS. Not many people where I live have iphones.

I had just assumed the slow animation was buying time to call out to an LLM.

This app brings me so much delight. Seeing the incoming plane, knowing % chance of onetime or late.

Honestly I often know changes from Flighty for my flights before the airlines do or at least before they notify me. I had once my carrier said on time and Flighty said 90 mins delay. I went to the airport on time and turns out flight was delayed. Should have just trusted them!

I'm sure the app is wonderful. I've gotten pretty good at finding this data from other sources, though, and one huge problem is that a delay isn't a delay until the airline says it is. If you carry on every bag and have no special requirements, and you checked in online ahead of time (so you have your boarding pass), it's very useful info and I could see paying for the app.

But if, say, you are traveling with a pet that has to be verified at the counter, or you need to check a bag, the time windows for accepting those are set by the scheduled departure time. If your plane is still in the air or hasn't even left its origination airport (and, for the sake of argument here, we will assume you are flying from a smaller airport that doesn't have other aircraft that can easily be reassigned to your flight, so you know it will be delayed), it doesn't matter: they still close the check-in and baggage 45 minutes (on American; YMMV by airline) before scheduled departure. So you have no choice but to get there early and wait unless your airline actually declares the flight delayed when they know it will happen.

Because they don’t want to?

It’s not just about money. It’s complexity, company size, management, etc.. Loss of focus by having to build a new app from ground up. Features and improvements take longer as they have to be done twice. Parity problems. Support debt. Maintaining multiple versions of the same app isn’t just “hire more”.

As you agreed with, they are successful. Maybe they’re happy with that.

This is how Canada works (Westminster style). When a govt tables a budget it goes to a vote, and if they can’t get the votes to pass it it triggers a no-confidence vote in the govt and away we go to an election.

There was 7 seconds between clearance being given and the accident.

Beyond is not a convincing substitute. I think it’s delicious for processed food and I prefer it to beef by a lot, but it is definitely beany tasting.