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So does anyone know if Apple intentionally code hijacks popular apps to make them perform better on their phones yet? There are a number of specific hacks in W
by andrewmcwatters 3y ago
So does anyone know if Apple intentionally code hijacks popular apps to make them perform better on their phones yet?
There are a number of specific hacks in WebKit to make big websites work well, and I would have thought by now that Apple does some sort of coalescing or trampolining for the big names in tech and most popular apps.
Microsoft did similar work for Windows in the distant past. Not sure if they still do.
- acdha 3y agoWhy would they do that when they could just reject the next app update telling the developer to optimize it?
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoBecause the App Store Review team doesn’t catch everything.
- acdha 3y agoSo the claim is that it would be easier to develop an entire binary hot-patching mechanism to apply reverse-engineered optimizations than to send an email to a colleague saying “this runs pretty hot, ask them to fix it”?
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoApple has conversations with popular developers, but they’re really not looking over every individual release with as much scrutiny as you think. So yes. Also, this already happens with other software on Apple’s platforms. My question is does anyone know if they also do it with iOS native apps. We know they do it on macOS.