Yeah, I'd gladly pay them a couple of bucks a month because they're great at the basic job of replicating my files, and I'll occasionally check their site to see what the lowest paid tier is. But it's just not a unique enough service that I'll pay $8/mo. I like my toaster fine, but if it started demanding $8/mo I'd chuck it and make do with the oven or cold bagels. Well, not cold bagels, but at least I'd lose some weight.

Onavo is probably using the standard VPN APIs and just inferring what apps are installed by watching the network traffic. Many apps have a server component they talk to, so that's not too difficult. There are network APIs on iOS (Content Filter, Per-App VPN) that will let you directly associate network traffic with apps, but they're targeted for enterprise security products and require supervised devices and/or MDM to get set up, so it isn't something you see typical consumer apps like this using.

The Dutch have a word "gezellig" that doesn't have a direct English translation but essentially means "comfortable" or "homey". It's used to describe a place that just feels right, like the unnamed "quality of place" discussed in Christopher Alexander's "Timeless Way of Building" and "A Pattern Language".

I walked into this really cool bar with some friends and one of them said "Ah...gezellig!" and it just fit. IANAL(inguist) but it seems to me having a word for an idea like that gives one a better understanding of it. Not that an American wouldn't appreciate the same space as much, but I think there's a subtle difference in understanding something (and perhaps appreciating it) when you can say "gezellig" rather than stumbling for words that talk around the idea.

Anyone know of a resource for words that have no English equivalent? It's be interesting to see what we're missing out on.