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At some point in life, you realize that some discussions, some arguments, are entirely wastes of energy and entire premises can be thrown away with simpler disc
by bellowsgulch 5mo ago
At some point in life, you realize that some discussions, some arguments, are entirely wastes of energy and entire premises can be thrown away with simpler discussions and arguments.
To this one, I say, who cares? Don’t publish on platforms where you can’t control your own intellectual property.
Why use the App Store at all? It only serves to benefit Apple, and the vast majority of developers are simply making $100/yr payments to use their own custom software.
For the largest companies who ship apps on iOS and Android because they have more money than sense and can afford to waste countless engineering hours letting barely qualified, fractionally compensated people say yes or no, I say let them.
For the rest of us who are better managers, let’s own our own release process, and if that means building a website or a web app instead, go do it.
Whatever you’re shipping to a phone isn’t for professionals anyway.
- knollimar 5mo agoAren't ipads the new clipboards?
- timnetworks 5mo agoI've never seen someone fling their clipboard against the wall so hard it shatters. Probably clipboard developers are just a better breed.
- brewdad 5mo agoThe go to move with clipboards is to break them in half across your knee/leg.
- MrZander 5mo ago> Whatever you’re shipping to a phone isn’t for professionals anyway. That's a bold statement. I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS.
- Marsymars 5mo ago> I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS. I mean, you could outsource the mobile app building. My company does basically our entire B2B stack and infrastructure in-house except for the mobile apps.
- NetMageSCW 5mo agoThat just indicates you don’t really care about your customers mobile experience and they will notice eventually.
- Marsymars 5mo agoMaybe, but we pay notably more to outsource than we were previously paying for in-house dev; it works better at our scale - our client apps probably merit like 1 FTE developer, and it's easier to get appropriate expertise for mobile app development from a third party that specializes in that rather than trying to maintain it in-house, or by spreading the pain of Apple provisioning profiles and app store review, etc. among a team of non-mobile devs.
- Velocifyer 5mo agoHave you tried using a web app? A well made PWA app can work well, and most iPhone users don't care about memory or lag.