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"There was one company not in attendance, though, and they served as the proverbial elephant in the room that no one wanted to discuss. I heard them referred to
by jccalhoun 11y ago
"There was one company not in attendance, though, and they served as the proverbial elephant in the room that no one wanted to discuss. I heard them referred to cagily as “a company in California” or “a certain fruit company.” Their glowing logo illuminated nearly every laptop in the room, and yet it seemed like nobody dared speak their name. "
Why wouldn't people just say "Apple?" Is this hyperbole or is there some reason why people are afraid to directly criticize apple at a conference that apple isn't even at?
- michaelwww 11y agoHappy thousand day anniversary on HN! (I accidentally clicked your name.) The author is exaggerating, like he did with the title. IE was until recently a big drag on web dev, but Safari is not. Speaking about Apple in hushed tones seems like a joke by the author, because it seems to me that some devs who use Apple products really over-rate Apple's importance. I don't use Apple products and don't feel I am missing anything. Most important innovations in web dev are in the much bigger eco-system outside of Apple. My only concern is that Apple is onboard with WebAssembly, because it would be unfortunate if they did not implement that, but as the author said, WebKit is open source and someone will do it.
- nolanl 11y agoNope, people literally did say things like "a certain company in California." But yeah, I'm exaggerating a bit, because the name "Apple" did come up occasionally. The problem is that when everybody wants to discuss the hot new browser features, mentioning Apple is just a big downer. We all know we're going to have to polyfill at best, or just not support Safari at worst. Nobody wants to be reminded of that sad fact when you're trying to get excited about the potential of the web platform.