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> "Starting on Day One"

> "I have been a “day one” developer for three of Apple’s platforms"

> "I’m going to be a “day one” developer for the Vision Pro."

> "The Economics of “Day One”"

> "Look for Widgetsmith for visionOS from “day one”."

it looks like a guy who is flexing his "day one" access and using it to advertise some vaporware, and the rest of the words in the blogpost are some fluff maybe gpt could make it

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It doesn't take much to get "day one" access like he's describing. I was some random kid with a couple years of (completely self-taught, solo, using free tools) Mac OS X dev experience in 2008, and I had beta access to the SDK and could have had an app out on day one if I had been more disciplined. Same goes for both the iPad and the Apple Watch. The SDKs for both were easily available before the devices shipped.

Salty much FTX Bro? This is David „underscore“ Smith, developer of Widgetsmith and a ton of other successful iOS apps. Genuinely one of the nicest human beings. If anyone has earned the rights to flex its him.

> "Salty much FTX Bro?"

FTX can still be profitable today if they allow SBF to raise funds. They just didn't understand his vision.

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