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It's an unrealistic advice. It's easy to say it when your income is not dependent on these apps. But if you have an app in a marketplace that pays your bills, y
by usaphp 10y ago
It's an unrealistic advice. It's easy to say it when your income is not dependent on these apps. But if you have an app in a marketplace that pays your bills, you can't afford to risk it just because you don't like dev tools...
- dwightgunning 10y agoIt's only unrealistic if you aren't willing to adapt to changing market conditions.
- orbitur 10y agoBut the market conditions are what's holding us in place.
- cwyers 10y agoThis may not be what HN readers want to hear, but users, not developers, have the primary influence over what the market is.
- jes5199 10y agois the market still apps? I don't work on mobile, so I guess I wouldn't know, but my feeling was that people install way fewer apps than they used to
- AsyncAwait 10y agoAs a mobile developer, I can confirm this. They mostly just install all their social networks and a couple of games, but there's still demand from businesses who want their own apps.