>The reason I chose to make Danish Names a paid app from the beginning was simply that I think it's a lot more honest and upfront to charge a small one-time fee before the download, as opposed to claiming your app is free and then charging a high fee or even a subscription inside the app. There's an honesty and straight-forwardness to paid apps that I like: You pay once, and then you don't get bothered with requests for paid upgrades when you're using the app.
The resonated with me. I'm trying to get my own app from 80% to 95% so I can release and ill be going the upfront cost route for these say reasons.
Personally I cant ever remember a time where I thought that far ahead.
Maybe I was one of the last "lucky ones" that did my teens and twenties when 'dating' was less official and its was closer to just, I like spending time with you.
Im not sure this is new for LLM's. I know plenty of devs who would be lost without Jetbrains Inellij, Microsoft Visual Studio, ReSharper etc etc etc
IMHO Freemium models and paid subscriptions to tools make me much more likely to purchase as the possibility for ad-supported, data selling and en-shitification are reduced drastically with a simple, pay for what you value
I know my view will be affected by the UK being generally a small country...
most people aren't driving 200+ miles a day, which means 90% of charging will be at home.
Driving longer that 200 miles means you probably want a decent break. So I would imagine that most "local" places will disappear / pivot into shops with EV charging also.
Motorway services will also change I think. Fast food isnt as much of an appeal when you're stuck there for an hour or so anyway. So I could see a rise in retrain complexes with charging abilities.
possibly changes in behaviour will also affect things. If im traveling 4-6hrs in a day, id be ok with stopping of for an hour at a shopping centre where I could charge and also do some shopping, maybe let the kids play in a softplay or whatever
The first clever folks to stick a bull ring within 5 minutes drive of the M6 will 200+ charging points will do VERY well I think.
The process has already begun - UK petrol station numbers are down by a third since the beginning of the century.
As you say, they'll all but cease to exist in urban areas, with the process mostly complete by the end of the 2030s. I'm not sure that dedicated EV charging stations will be all that common in cities, though. Why not use existing car parks for that?
Some probably will end up being used as surface car parks where there's demand for it, but urban land values are such that I suspect most will be knocked down and replaced with apartments or larger retail units. A few may retain the forecourt structures as a form of kitsch (think of the florists beside Regents Park in London, or the Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds).
There'll probably be a growing niche for domestic fuel delivery services. You might also see a minor resurgence of the very small neighbourhood filling stations that mostly died out in the 1970s/80s - the sort of place that does MOT checks or tyre changes today. Some might end up installing a pump or two, to cater for vintage car enthusiasts.
I think vintage car enthusiasts will end up served by oil drums and a drum pump. That's already how petrol is delivered and distributed to small island communities.
I basically have my car to get from the big city I live in, to a secondary city. I always buy my fuel in that secondary city because it’s always much cheaper.
> Many cities will ban vintage cars from entering.
> AI Mode feels cleaner and more useful because it skips the clutter Google’s own algorithm helped create.
I dont think this one can be blamed solely on google. SEO has been gaming pure "best results" search algo for decades. Clickbait BS headlines, listicles and all sorts have made it harder and harder to produce what the searching person desires. Answers / Results.
Personally, much to my own annoyance, I find myself reading to LLM's for an answer more and more when the alternative is sifting through pages and pages of low quality "articles" with a personal bio & life history above the fold before the answer I want to find.
lots of the comments here focus on freelancing vs perm.
Organisations of all shapes and sizes make irrational choices like this all the time.
RTO - overwhelmingly unpopular with the workforce, with seemingly no tangible upside, being enforced all over the place "just because" (my pet theory is that those paying like to see the bums on seats, to look out over their empire, but just cant bring themselves to admit it).
startups looking for senior engineers and cant compete on price ... why not offer a pro-rata 4-day week? the "big boys" aren't doing that, and once you have a 4 day week its very hard to give up. "oh no we cant possible we have far too much to do". yes becuase 4 out of 5 days is worse than 0 out of 5....
im sure there are millions of such "irational" things which pretty much boils down to the fact that no one actually made a choice. Its all product of circumstance, how its always been done, what everyone else is doing, mixed with a bit of "well why should they get it if I didn't for all my previous 25 years of working"
The resonated with me. I'm trying to get my own app from 80% to 95% so I can release and ill be going the upfront cost route for these say reasons.