they just appeared out of nowhere!

20 min from idea to execution, new record

developer.apple.com/design/human...

Apparently Apple thinks sound in games "isn’t essential" if I read this right.

I'm pretty sure that some time ago, all the apps were silenced with the switch, and only recently some apps started to ignore it. I noticed it because I *never* want to play audio through the speaker except I'm actively switching it on, so now my speaker volume is always set to 0 to be sure...

Never thought about it like that, maybe that's right. It's just the default setting in Unity that no sounds play if switched to silent, and you need to add a plugin to override that behaviour. Maybe when the switch was introduced, it had a different meaning?

Here some Pocket Boss reviews:
reviewreader.playables.net/read/steam/3...

probably it‘s wrong to ask accounting software to be fun, but here I am

same here, there’s definitely some complexity in interfacing with data from diff sources, but the part of accounting that is legally required for small companies around here is pretty generic and there *are* tools, they just feel like (or are) from the last century in terms of UX. just „not fun“

for many things that‘s probably the best solution, as long as there are no (external?) people involved who are expecting to use the „real“ software

It really seems to be the most simple kind of app imaginable to develop, but I guess it‘s just so boring to make one so nobody capable of making a better one wants to spend time on that. I always thought that‘s a problem of our tiny local market, but maybe it‘s a more universal issue

what the slop

They're still doing SEO nowadays!