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Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597 .
I confess I never trust an animal until I can see its mouth; until I know what it eats, I can't be sure whether I'm dinner. So how does Twitter benefit from this? Is it just hoping that people will use their ad platform? Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597 .
it's the second time this week i hear about reactive cocoa.I'm starting to hate uikit with a passion, but what's so special about it ?
FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597 .
it's the second time this week i hear about reactive cocoa.I'm starting to hate uikit with a passion, but what's so special about it ?
I confess I never trust an animal until I can see its mouth; until I know what it eats, I can't be sure whether I'm dinner. So how does Twitter benefit from this? Is it just hoping that people will use their ad platform? Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
Getting your company ingrained into a larger part of the app market has huge benefits. Now if people aren't using the Twitter app, Twitter can track them and get data from them if they use an app that relies on Fabric.
The benefit is purely integrating themselves with larger and more diverse user bases.
FYI it's built using Swift and ReactiveCocoa. They put up all the dependencies licenses in Settings so I made a list of the packages they use https://gist.github.com/ropiku/b259f35060a40eab1597 .
it's the second time this week i hear about reactive cocoa.I'm starting to hate uikit with a passion, but what's so special about it ?
In case anyone else was confused, Fabric is also the name of the CSS framework from Microsoft for developing Office 365 add-ins. https://blogs.office.com/2015/08/31/introducing-office-ui-fa...
It's also the name of a Python devops tool http://www.fabfile.org/
I confess I never trust an animal until I can see its mouth; until I know what it eats, I can't be sure whether I'm dinner. So how does Twitter benefit from this? Is it just hoping that people will use their ad platform? Given Twitter's fickleness toward developers in the past I'm especially wary.
There is an article from wired that talks about it here http://www.wired.com/2014/10/twitter-fabric-sdk/ Getting your company ingrained into a larger part of the app market has huge benefits. Now if people aren't using the Twitter app, Twitter can track them and get data from them if they use an app that relies on Fabric. The benefit is purely integrating themselves with larger and more diverse user bases.
In which case, I'd be kinda skeptical. If the other tools are mainly loss-leaders for advertising, then Twitter will be prone to limiting or canceling them when the internal politics change.
Which is exactly what they did with API access previously: they cost money to operate and weren't for the moment seen as directly beneficial, so what was previously going to be free forever was suddenly cut back.