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I’ll say it. This is kind of a joke. Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it, and built an active community who contributed, or if i

by dfee 6y ago

I’ll say it. This is kind of a joke. Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it, and built an active community who contributed, or if it was more than 100 websites long. But the heavy publicity push seems a bit early. And, it feels like Apple’s announcement is little more than “hey guys, check out this POC repo!”. It kinda feels like Apple doesn’t get OSS.

dewey 6y ago
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06052020a&1591373342 https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06052020a&1591373342 doesn't seem like a "heavy publicity push". It's a niche topic and the target audience of people who build password managers isn't exactly a huge one.
- dfee 6y ago
  1 hour ago this began appearing on plenty of Mac news sites. The PR game is a push not a pull.
  - dewey 6y ago
    Every tiny bit of information trickling out of Apple is circulating on Mac news site. Even if it's just a delivery date changing somewhere in the store. These news site are actively looking for that. I doubt the PR department is pushing out a footnote on the developer portal to a bunch of Mac rumor blogs.
    - threeseed 6y ago
      It's not even on the major Mac rumor blogs. MacRumors and AppleInsiders both don't have the article.
      - Hamuko 6y ago
        https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/05/apple-open-source-password-management-project/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/05/apple-open-source-passw... https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/05/apple-announces-open-source-project-for-password-manager-developers https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/05/apple-announces-o...
  - tech234a 6y ago
    The sites probably found it on Apple's Developer News RSS feed. (https://developer.apple.com/news/rss/news.rss https://developer.apple.com/news/rss/news.rss)
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jmull 6y ago
> Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it You're hating on it for being from Apple? That makes as much sense as loving it because it's from Apple.
- dfee 6y ago
  No. Not hating on it because it's from Apple. Hating on it because they must have more information then they released in the repo. Perhaps they truly don't have more information and released everything they have – and this is a "what if we were to come together". But it doesn't feel immediately useful, and so I'm reluctant to believe that companies will bidirectionally contribute to this.
mwfunk 6y ago
This is not even a drop in the bucket if you think this is some sort of publicity stunt. Outside of the tech bubble nobody knows any of this stuff even exists, and inside the tech bubble there's a much, much higher percentage of incel/redpill types than the general population, so it wouldn't even make sense as a way to change their perception within the tech world. It may or may not be useful to anyone, I have no idea. But to characterize this as a "heavy publicity push" doesn't make sense. It's not a push, there's no publicity, and there's nothing heavy about it.

by dfee 6y ago

dewey 6y ago

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06052020a&1591373342 https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06052020a&1591373342 doesn't seem like a "heavy publicity push". It's a niche topic and the target audience of people who build password managers isn't exactly a huge one.

dfee 6y ago
1 hour ago this began appearing on plenty of Mac news sites. The PR game is a push not a pull.
- dewey 6y ago
  Every tiny bit of information trickling out of Apple is circulating on Mac news site. Even if it's just a delivery date changing somewhere in the store. These news site are actively looking for that. I doubt the PR department is pushing out a footnote on the developer portal to a bunch of Mac rumor blogs.
  - threeseed 6y ago
    It's not even on the major Mac rumor blogs. MacRumors and AppleInsiders both don't have the article.
    - Hamuko 6y ago
      https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/05/apple-open-source-password-management-project/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/05/apple-open-source-passw... https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/05/apple-announces-open-source-project-for-password-manager-developers https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/05/apple-announces-o...
- tech234a 6y ago
  The sites probably found it on Apple's Developer News RSS feed. (https://developer.apple.com/news/rss/news.rss https://developer.apple.com/news/rss/news.rss)
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jmull 6y ago

> Not that it would be a joke if an individual developer released it You're hating on it for being from Apple? That makes as much sense as loving it because it's from Apple.

dfee 6y ago
No. Not hating on it because it's from Apple. Hating on it because they must have more information then they released in the repo. Perhaps they truly don't have more information and released everything they have – and this is a "what if we were to come together". But it doesn't feel immediately useful, and so I'm reluctant to believe that companies will bidirectionally contribute to this.

mwfunk 6y ago

This is not even a drop in the bucket if you think this is some sort of publicity stunt. Outside of the tech bubble nobody knows any of this stuff even exists, and inside the tech bubble there's a much, much higher percentage of incel/redpill types than the general population, so it wouldn't even make sense as a way to change their perception within the tech world. It may or may not be useful to anyone, I have no idea. But to characterize this as a "heavy publicity push" doesn't make sense. It's not a push, there's no publicity, and there's nothing heavy about it.