> Now, even getting a simple app up and running on Android or iOS requires abstraction-on-abstraction-on-boilerplate. And you still don't know what the lower la

> Now, even getting a simple app up and running on Android or iOS requires abstraction-on-abstraction-on-boilerplate. And you still don't know what the lower layers are doing. And there's plenty of people ready to write theses abstraction in the open source world. > Are we surprised these days that kids (and everyone else) don't see "writing an app" as something they can just try? It's just as easy and I see just as many kids trying than before. There's millions apps on the > And making it runnable requires a developer account, etc. Sure that's definitely not an artificial barrier added to control what gets made... You don't need one to develop on Android by the way ;), nor do you need one on Windows... Linux... Mac... well actually only iOS come to minds, any other? > And that the end consequence of that is that they don't value the ability to do so? The consumer aren't aware of that, most of them doesn't want to makes apps, most of them doesn't know the barrier added actually affect their ability to access content.