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> Why can't I swap cloud backends on the mobile platforms? The real answer is because this is a ton of work for very little customer benefit and creates tons o
by wilg 2y ago
> Why can't I swap cloud backends on the mobile platforms?
The real answer is because this is a ton of work for very little customer benefit and creates tons of headaches to solve a mostly theoretical problem. It's not worth it to anyone involved.
- hbn 2y agoExactly, Apple will put in all the work to implement cloud features in a way where you can swap out the backend just so Hacker News Guy, as the "techie" guy in the family, can set up his whole family with his own hacked together cloud backend for their phones which will regularly fail and cause people to like their iPhone less, and/or support calls to Apple that will be 100x harder to troubleshoot.