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> React is FB and Angular is Google This doesn't matter in practice - they could have freely used either to design the web client at no cost. If they wanted to
by penagwin 7y ago
> React is FB and Angular is Google
This doesn't matter in practice - they could have freely used either to design the web client at no cost. If they wanted to take over development and go their own direction they just had to fork them.
- tempsy 7y agoOf course in doesn’t matter in practice. It’s the optics.
- ssalazar 7y agoIs there still patent uncertainty around React (or Angular)? Otherwise, Im not sure why anyone outside HN would care about the optics of which front-end library was used.
- tempsy 7y agoAre you really saying you don’t understand why Apple might not want to use a framework created by their frenemies in Facebook and Google, especially given Apple’s focus on privacy and willingness to make an example of FB and Google for their comparatively lax privacy standards?
- ssalazar 7y agoSure, but how does any of that resonate with the general public? "Apple is using Facebook's front-end code library" isnt exactly a gripping headline or tweet. You can read the source code to either; its not as if theyre secretly embedding tracking into every React/Angular app.
- tempsy 7y agoOk. I mean you can ask that to Tim Cook :) If not optics it’s about ego. Again, if Apple hates FB/Goog then why use their frameworks when there’s dozens of other alternatives.
- freehunter 7y agoApple’s iCloud has alternately used Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. That’s a bit more trusting than a front end web framework. https://betanews.com/2018/02/26/apple-icloud-now-powered-by-google-cloud-not-microsoft-azure/ https://betanews.com/2018/02/26/apple-icloud-now-powered-by-...
- matthewvincent 7y agoNot that it matters but I interviewed for an Apple team that was using react. Something adjacent to iTunes if I remember correctly.