"Even Omni Group had layoffs a couple months ago." Aw. I love their software. Omnigraffle is my platonic ideal of great software.
Thanks!
-Wil
Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
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Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sick of this. I'm so, so sick of this. I swear every time this happens, I think "oh, there is no app by that name" and then I have to double check make sure I really used the right search term and that the result is actually a first party app. If I were searching for a genre such as "podcast" or "camera" app, I understand seeing paid ads. But when I search for a specific name, I see absolutely no reason whatsoeve…
Although this gets tricky -- will everyone just start naming their app "Podcast player" and "Podcast 1" so that their app name is optimized to match a search term exactly? Maybe this already happens, but I can see it being hard to distinguish if the person is looking up a specific app called "podcast player" or a generic term
Someone could manually set some keywords too.
But if there's too much uncertainty then just don't do ads at all. The fallback shouldn't be ads for all search terms.
Your post seems like a rebuttal to the idea of "just show the app they wanted", but that wasn't the request. The request was just to leave the search alone.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#213> I’ve literally never met one person who has enjoyed subscribing to software and losing access to it once they stop paying. You can meet me - I much prefer subscriptions. Pay while I use it, like a service, rather than pretending to 'buy' it which was never really how it was anyway. I don't mind losing access if I'm not paying any more. If want to use it again, I'm happy to pay again. What's the problem?
Nice to meet you.
-W
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#214Why would it change if you keep shoveling money (and dev resources) directly to Apple? They already know you'll stay regardless of their response.
They don’t know that, actually, because I haven’t decided I’ll stay in the App Store.
-Wil
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#215>Allow us to charge a nominal fee to for major upgrades to our apps. Right now new versions either have to be made into all-new apps, or we have to give away all new versions for free. There’s no way to charge an upgrade free. If I buy a Mac or iPhone from Apple I can trade it in towards a new one when I upgrade, but users can’t do the same thing for software. All the developers I know are suffering right now because…
All the solutions and hacks I’ve seen from other companies to simulate discounted upgrades have been a mess — that’s not my verdict, it’s the verdict of the developers who have tried it and found themselves stymied by Apple’s byzantine rules and limited App Store.
-W
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#216Interesting points. I disagree with one of the points that argues Apple should favor the “real apps,” which I assume refer to native iOS apps. Users don’t care what stack developers use as long as the product does its job and developers for sure want to reach as many users as possible regardless of what platform they are on. Also, companies with more resources will be better positioned than indie developers to make n…
I argue it’s in Apple’s interest to support native developers or there will soon not be any third-party software that’s exclusive to Apple, which is NOT in their interest.
I’m appealing to their pocketbook.
-W
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#217One day it'll dawn on people that we should provide infrastructure that guarantees safety and freedom, not walled gardens that provide safety and freedom only if it also happens to be profitable for somebody. There seem to be enough people who don't see this as self evident and are motivated to try and create their own walled gardens in the hopes of becoming the next rent seeker overlord. These types of posts never e…
I’ve been using NeXTstep since 1988 and have influenced the course of its history quite a bit over the last 32 years, as it found its way into Macs and then iPhones.
I don’t think it’s undignified to tell Apple they are going down a road that’ll hurt everyone.
You assume nobody at Apple will listen to me. I don’t.
-Wil
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slack, renown for horrible app performance, should never be an example in any discussion about underlying architecture. It seems poor performance is a core value at the company.
I think that's a bit unfair to Slack. I've been using it for 5 years now and it's one of the most dependable apps I've ever used. When you consider how many messages and rich content it's handling, I think they are doing a fairly decent job. I wouldn't call it slow either. If anything my biggest beef with slack is sometimes the cross-device syncing isn't perfect. And I'm unable to use it offline at all.
> When you consider how many messages and rich content it's handling, I think they are doing a fairly decent job.
"handling"
Sending and receiving is something for a background thread to spend a fraction of a percent of a CPU core on.
The amount on-screen at any time is tiny, and should not take a significant amount of resources on a modern computer.
If it's rendering a thousand off-screen rich content messages, that's not impressive, that's it being coded badly.
Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#219The only way we effect change is by ORGANIZING. Right now, Apple can do whatever they want because they pick us off one by one, and ignore us. Google does exactly the same thing. If we organize as a large enough group, they have to listen. I firmly believe what Apple does is anti-competitive and they need to be regulated firmly by the government. I also think Google and Facebook need to be firmly regulated by the gov…
Thought experiment: Let’s day that Apple banned an app by both Black Lives Matter and “Focus on the Family” and they both complained about it to the government. Which one do you think the government would be more likely to force Apple to carry? It continues to amaze me that anyone wants the sane government more involved in technology whose leader wants to “shut down Twitter” and wants all of the data it can get to sp…
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Re: Every year I fill out this survey from Apple, for Apple developers
#220I have been thinking about an alternative pricing model but it only works for content creation software. It would be enabled by an OpenPGP library which handles signing of files and micropayments. What if the app itself was free but it charged a small fee the first time a new file was saved? The file format doesn't have to be proprietary - a simple chunk of metadata should be able to identify the creator and the file…
How do you define "new file"? Why don't I put all my data into various copies of the same original file?