At the moment, only through Airplay and iPhone. But the new update is apparently bringing a possibility to set default music app to other apps (similar to email now) which should allow direct playback.
NPS originally came from car manufactures and industries that produce products that are easy comparable, I.e. how happy are you with the car? Would you recommend BMW to friends?
I don’t think it’s that great for software, but it’s very trendy. It can be gamed, like anything else, usually by sending NPS surveys to decision makers who aren’t usually the actual users.
Slightly better metric is Customer Effort Score (CEF) which shows how easy is to do business with a company.
I believe the strongest points for Fitbit are its looks of a discrete non fancy fitness tracker with long battery. My mum didn’t even want to hear about Apple Watch, she just wanted something that counts steps.
I live in the UK and also recommend Monzo. They have a good app but the thing that stood out most to me was the correct use of emoji in their terms and conditions. It is definitely a modern bank.
Ditto on Monzo and Starling. A friend works at Starling and from the stories he's mentioned, they seem like they treat customers and employees with respect.
Personally I use Monzo for personal banking, and Starling for business. Though starling has a personal banking product too.
While I dislike “subscription everywhere” model, I suspect this could work miracles for second hand market, allowing consumers to add options to their purchase. I wouldn’t be surprised if these options are thrown in as “freebies” to the first owner and free for a couple of years and then turn into subscription.
It bothers me that they're intertwining a subscription model for something that shouldn't need a subscription (steering wheel heaters). If the car came with one, it should just be available.
Adding this layer of abstraction complicates things and puts an unnecessary burden on to the user to consider a complex pricing structure of what features they want for what duration of time.
Between healthcare, airlines, music, and now cars, it's becoming ridiculously complicated just to buy things. I don't like it when companies complicate their pricing models to eke out a few extra dollars from those consumers who haven't meticulously studied the pricing models to optimize their purchase; I have other things going on in my life.
This sort of reminds me of Tesla's higher capacity battery via software. The fact that the whole battery is there and it's just a software lock makes me kind of angry.
Linux on desktop is one of those things where reputation precedes reality. It runs fine most of the time, but many remember or have read the nightmare stories about non-functioning hardware, the need to compile drivers and so on.
While Linux has been sorting out those issues, a lot of things moved ahead to SaaS and Web applications and for majority the device is just a terminal. Which runs Windows or MacOS because people are complacent and don’t care.
Unfortunately you need to be acredited to be able to get access to banks APIs and in order to get acredited there are certain requirements such as needing to be a legal entity. Alas, no dice for the enthusiasts.
There are other, such as capital, cash flow and licensing requirements.... As far as I can tell.
I was very disappointed when I found this out too. Fail.
There will probably be resellers offering api access to our own data (I think that's the deal with tokens.io) so... classic lobbiest produced walled garden to limit free enterprise and competition.
I share the same memory. I remember being very impressed how it run on my Dell laptops Pentium 233 MMX and 64 MB RAM. It even had the driver support for 3Com 14.4k PCMCIA modem... ah the nostalgia!
