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You must be chugging the koolaid to believe developers LOVE Apple's policies, or enjoy getting their hard-work rejected by a bot, or getting shamed by an overze
by throwGuardian 7y ago
You must be chugging the koolaid to believe developers LOVE Apple's policies, or enjoy getting their hard-work rejected by a bot, or getting shamed by an overzealous Apple employee on HN. Developers are homogeneously unappreciative of Apple's treatment of them. They just don't have any leverage, or opportunity to negotiate
- saagarjha 7y ago…you're replying to a comment where I state that I don't fully agree with Apple's policies.
- arvinsim 7y agoDoesn't help that developers still buy their machines. Apple will only listen if it hits their bottom line.
- simonh 7y agoThe problem is that flakey software on their platform, that breaks on OS updates and bug fixes annoys users, and thus also hits Apple's bottom line.
- scarface74 7y agoWho are you going to blame when applications start breaking because Apple removes or changes the functionality of a private function? [1] without warning? When you are writing any software that has a public API you should feel no obligation to change the functionality or completely remove a private method without warning. [1] I refuse to call it a private API. An API is public documentation of the inputs and expected behavior of a dependency. It should be a completely black box how that functionality is implemented.
- throwGuardian 7y agoBlame the developer? Which is why, when an app breaks on the Mac store or app store, users pound the app with 1-star reviews. Even if the breakage happened from a platform (iOS or MacOs or Android) bug. This is not Apple "watching out" for the developers, no matter how much you spin it