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> This is mostly a cheap trick to inflate vanity metrics. No, it's a way to mitigate the "chicken and egg" problem for the platform. Having existing apps to ma
by meepmorp 3y ago
> This is mostly a cheap trick to inflate vanity metrics.
No, it's a way to mitigate the "chicken and egg" problem for the platform. Having existing apps to make the device immediately useful is important, even if they're not all exploiting the capabilities of the platform immediately.
- tsunamifury 3y agoI’ve been at this a long time and it actually isn’t. It keeps many developers from starting from scratch to take full advantage of the hardware, then disappoints the user