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"Another developer who preferred to remain anonymous, out of concern for damaging their relationship with Apple, looks at it differently." Hilarious to me that
by ddw 11y ago
"Another developer who preferred to remain anonymous, out of concern for damaging their relationship with Apple, looks at it differently."
Hilarious to me that if you even softly criticize Apple you have to do it anonymously in fear of retribution. Must be an awesome company to work with.
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- cwyers 11y agoThere have been many, many other threads on Hacker News where this has been discussed. Consider this not extrapolating from a single data point, but using one data point to illustrate a larger trend that we see over and over again here.
- devopsproject 11y agoits not the first time a developer has preferred to remain anonymous from apple
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- indy 11y agoSee Eli Schiff's excellent blog-post "Fear of Apple" (http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple)
- gilgoomesh 11y agoIt's not so weird. When you run a business, you avoid criticising any company you rely on. You don't start a war with credit card companies, your hosting provider, your lawyers, your accountants, your insurance company, your building management or others unless you're prepared for them to give you bad service or drop you entirely. Apple have the power to make and break small businesses dependent on the App Store which sucks but that power isn't unique (most of the services I listed above could do the same thing). If you can't be diplomatic to essential business partners, you're going to get abandoned.
- ddw 11y agoI agree, but notice the person's comment was diplomatic. It wasn't trashing Apple, just stating a different viewpoint. And he/she thought it was necessary to remain anonymous for that.
- Eric_WVGG 11y agoThis is commonplace in any situation where there is a company holds so much dominance in an industry, though. I was immediately reminded of how game development studios were petrified by the idea of criticizing Nintendo in the late 80’s.
- api 11y agoIt was the same with Microsoft in the 90s and with any console game maker and Nintendo in the 80s.