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> The histrionical descriptions of other people's takes are like nails on chalkboard and kinda gross. (bloody murder?) Claiming that Apple is trying to “kill”
by turquoisevar 3y ago
> The histrionical descriptions of other people's takes are like nails on chalkboard and kinda gross. (bloody murder?)
Claiming that Apple is trying to “kill” PWAs is in and of itself histrionic. Especially when behavioral evidence that clearly points to the opposite is completely ignored and the bad faith intents are attributed wholly based on “vibes”. My categorizing that as screaming bloody murder isn’t an escalation in rhetoric[0] in the slightest.
> Jen Simmons isn't a "rock star."
It’s a figure of speech within the industry, granted, it typically also implies big ego issues, so perhaps the term isn’t so suitable when it comes to Simmons.
> Hiring someone with a lot of Twitter followers
Trying to diminish someone’s accomplishments and relevance within an industry by pretending they “just have a lot of Twitter followers” does nothing to refute my arguments. She’s one of 82 web developers with a Wiki bio and one of 177 programmers, that alone signifies notability.
Point is that that she’s a high profile programmer and web developer and those come at a premium. That, plus the significant efforts made in the last four years to not only support PWAs but also improve standards, runs counter to the notion that Apple has ill will towards PWAs.
While she has spearheaded a lot of the investment in PWAs, for the purposes of this debate I only brought her up to emphasize Apple’s investments in making improvements.
Even with Simmons out of the equation there’s still four years of significant engineering efforts to reconcile.
> doesn't preclude the company from stopping doing something.
You’re begging the question here. Without you substantiating the implication that Apple has stopped improving PWAs, you’re just throwing around empty words.
Nevertheless, it’s clear Apple hasn’t stopped their efforts on PWAs, given that the next Safari update will, again, include a slew of improvements to the benefit of PWAs as can be seen in the Safari Technology Preview release notes[1].
I’m amenable to debate this further, provided you put in some effort into make a credible case with substantiated arguments and you can keep the tone policing to yourself.
0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scream%20bloody%20murder https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scream%20bloody%2...
1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-technology-preview-release-notes/stp-release-189 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-technology-...
- refulgentis 3y ago[flagged]
- motoxpro 3y ago“She is not a rock star” That is a statement about relevance and I would argue to be a “rock star” you also have to have a lot of accomplishments. You might not agree that she is a rock start but you did make comments about her relevance (“twitter followers” etc)
- refulgentis 3y agoIt is quite explicitly not a statement indicating I believe them to be irrelevant or not famous. This is immediately clear when, immediately after these two words, I mention Twitter followers, clearly indicating I believe they have fame and relevance. It's abundantly clear when I spell out that companies don't make product decisions based on famous hires. (n.b. rock stars get to dictate the concert and album schedule) It's ever the more clear when I name famous and relevant people as similes. It's absolutely abundantly clear once you notice I never used the words famous and relevant, or words with stems of the same. It's a fools errand to spend time imagining thoughts in other people's heads that twist their words into insults of other people.
- turquoisevar 3y agoReally? This is what you want to spend your time on doing? > Source for where I claimed this? Source for where I said you claimed this? > Source for where I said anything about accomplishments or relevance? Source for where I said anything about you straight up saying anything about accomplishments or relevance? > Source? I don't know where this is from at all. You said: “Hiring someone with a lot of Twitter followers to do something doesn't preclude the company from stopping doing something.” Now you’re gonna act coy by acting undignified about me interpreting “to do something” and “stopping doing something” to refer to working on PWA support when that has been the topic of this thread the entire time? Have some dignity.
- refulgentis 3y agoThis would have been easier: "oh, I missed a line break, imagine a \n after 'doesn't preclude the company from stopping doing something." If you needed to get a dig in, could have appended "I would imagine you would have remembered and/or noticed that at least the first sentence was in your post"