You don’t need to run your app in the background. You can register your app as some extension to handle photo backups/cloud storage and you just setup a request to upload to a particular url when a new photo is added, iOS will background those requests and retry them and what not.

Why do you need to sell a private practice? There’s no brand to sell, it’s just you and that will be gone.

PE is scourge in this space. They’ve probably taken over every dental office already and now they push unnecessary procedures and whatever your insurance will bear just because.

They sell because it’s their retirement nest egg.

Most private practices are small groups, not individuals. It absolutely sucks to have to find a new doctor who’s a good fit for you, when you’ve been seeing the same person for years or even decades. Usually when your doctor retires you rely on them to make a recommendation for a replacement. Usually that’s another partner in their same practice. At the very least, you (historically) expect them to sell the practice to someone they think is a worthy successor. Patients are fairly sticky.

And many of these PE sales require the selling partner to stay on for at least a year or two to ease the patients through the transition and so the patients get used to the changes before the doctor actually retires. That way, sticking around after the doctor retires doesn’t feel like such an upheaval.

>At the very least, you (historically) expect them to sell the practice to someone they think is a worthy successor.

PE isn’t that.

Yes, obviously. But historically that was the case, so it’s what patients mostly expect. Hence the loyalty after the sale, and the value to PE.

It is a brand and a book of customers someone has built up with surprising stickiness.

If there is truly nothing as you say, there is nothing for PE to buy, and no problem. If there is nothing to sell of value, what stops new dentists from seamlessly opening an office?

Maybe in your neck of the woods vets operate out of the trunk of their cars, but all the ones I've ever engaged had offices, expensive medical equipment, an office building, and trained staff.

Kind of silly. You have to pay somehow. Either pony up cash or pay with your eyeballs or data. But I doubt paying will give you privacy either.

I think few will argue it's ethically or legally fine for my website to pay by installing a keylogger through a zero-click Chromium RCE, burying it in the EULA.

Ads don't require pervasive and invasive tracking, and surveillance that Stasi would have wet dreams about.

>Not to mention Facebook is free whereas you pay for a GPT subscription

The overwhelming majority of users do not pay and use the free service.

Then it’s not air gapped…

It's air gapped from e.g. the internet.

>all by itself

Or it’s read countless articles on doing the same thing.

I mean, that goes without saying for LLMs. It is an approximation of human knowledge after all.

In the same way that a google search is .

LLMs are still playing word association - humans have something a little more complex going on where the word has meaning.

Are you really charging $9/onion? I get upset when Safeway charges $2/lb when I can get onions for a quarter that price.

“We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price”

https://youtu.be/wYlptbR0Dkw

I read that in his voice.

I give the scene to really junior people as the most realistic depiction of how to survive hammered in a late night high stakes meeting.

“You would never sell anything to any of those people ever again.”

Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing. But I do actually deliver the onions. Prices vary.

"Yes, it's primarily a novelty/art thing."

If you're going to do this with your life you have to believe that you're necessary - and you are - everyone wants to drive their fancy cars and their big fucking houses they can't afford they need you - you're necessary.

The only reason any of this works is (you) have (your) hand on the scale in their favor. (You) take it away, everything gets really fucking fair, really fucking fast - and don't no one want that.

They want all of the things (you) have to give them and .... then they want to pretend they don't know where it came from.

Priced to what the market can bear

Maybe it's a really big onion

maybe it tastes more oniony than most onions, these onions are the essential onions of which other onions are mere shadows.

It's the mischief caused by shadow onions lurking in dark corners of the market bins that make me cry.

I honestly don’t think you’d get that much variation. Beyond phone/sms, the list would likely end up with just these:

- decent camera

- messaging apps (WhatsApp/telegram/signal/etc)

- email

- maps

- rideshare (uber/lyft)

- mobile wallet (tap to pay)

People will also demand a browser, but that kind of defeats the purpose. All the apps should be utilities that you can’t spend hours in.

I suspect people would also demand music streaming, but I’m not sure really why you need that.

The size of this thing really puts me off. It’s like two iPhone minis stacked on top of each other, which seems massive for a flip phone.