I live nearby and worried something bad had happened when I heard all the ambulance helicopters.

Was really sad to hear about the dead and injured afterwards :(

Hopefully someone will do a TL;DR; on this.

Why do people keep posting links to this on HN? Not a complaint, just curious.

Have you seen this? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=visnalize.com

I still maintain apps in Objective-C, but I don't view them as technical debt. I find it mostly fun to maintain the knowledge.

One day the apps (products) may themselves become technical debt, but that is not the fault of the language they were written in.

As of late, their industrial design has been just beautiful. You want to have it, even if you have no use for it.

People will complain about the price, as per usual, but keep in mind that this is a small company making low volume products for professionals.

With that said, I certainly won't be buying one :)

> products for professionals

Certainly not :)

Most professionals I know will stick to their Sound Devices, Zoom or Cantar.

Yes, I don't doubt that there are more affordable products which offer the same, or (probably) better, quality, for a better price.

Nevertheless, some people just prefer to use products that spark their creativity, however irrational it may be. This can easily turn into a never ending discussion :P

It doesn't matter how good it looks... Not at $1500.

Even people with serious disposable cash had issues withe 'op1 field'. This is a far larger price differential with competing products in the same quality/feature bracket

There are, read the comments

In similar price range Tascam trumps Zoom!

It's like Apple but for musicians. If you need to care about the price you are likely not the target audience.

Thanks but I will stick with my Zoom field recorder.

I mean, nobody even understand what the Metaverse is... Is it a product? Is it a concept? Who owns it? What is Facebook's (Meta's) involvement? How does it relate to a VR headset? Is there only one metaverse, or multiple? etc...

I mean, I'm a tech person and even I don't pay enough attention to it to answer these questions. But, whether it is dead or not, time will tell.

Imo, seems like a bad thing to bet your legacy on. Haven't most people gotten over the VR headset hype by now? Kind of like 3D TV's from a decade ago. It also feels like such an anti-social technology. + the fact that a certain % of the population just get motion sickness from it.

But who knows, if anyone can succeed with it, Apple probably can!

3DTVs were way more fun for games

As VR is. Yet 3DTV flopped anyway.

Wow, looks amazing! How real-world accurate is this? The fit and finish was probably not as good irl.

What did it previously cost before this change?

An old screenshot of the dashboard from Twitter Community: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/original/3X/b/4/b42..., https://twittercommunity.com/t/api-pricing-its-very-dark-out...

$99/mo. for 100 requests, $1,899/mo. for 2,500 requests.

> 1 request is 30 days worth of tweets, or 500 tweets, whichever is first

IIRC it was $99/month and increased based on number of requests. I can't figure out where that was listed to check using the Internet Archive.

ok, so safe to say then that this is a calculated way of removing third party services from their platform?

There were many tiers, but it did go up into the 5 figures for large volumes.

There were no official prices on the twitter pages for the search endpoints and the powertrack apis. I tried to inquire and that is when I found out about the pricing changes (I am @blackforestboi on Twitter). There were some prices mentioned about the Account Activity API which were also quite pricey already. I think something like $2500 to follow updates of 500 accounts or so.

The key difference is that most APIs consumers and projects used were the v1.1 and v2 apis which were free to use with rate limits that were actually quite generous. (tweets, timelines, messages, bookmarks, lists, followers etc)

Now those APIs are all behind that enterprise paywall with that entry price of $42.000

That is such a confusing title... How I interpret the article is rather: "Stripe is raising $3.5B in order to buy-back shares from employees".

Which, if that is the case, really is just a re-distribution of money. Nothing is gained, nor lost.

But the article wants it to look like stripe is about to take a $3.5B tax loss...