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Slow Productivity - where you work at your own pace, focusing on quality, - would be the antidote to burnout that we all need.

Do less!

I have never made that to work. With Akamai we are resorting to lower ttl for cache expiry. The tag based cache architecture in practice is not helping with constraints from CDN providers

Apple is behaving like the monopolistic corporation that it is - just as expected.

Treating users as pawns while bullying other corporations, using privacy as fear mongering tactic. All the while it is collecting all the data and plans to provide ads on its own ecosystem.

Finger printer reader was first introduced in Motorola Atrix (Android). Then apple bought the company that provided finger print scanner to Atrix.

The biggest challenge is obeying the law and might not be the app.

Might be another way to circumvent this would be to masquerade as a delivery service with a free lift.

Not sure if the law covers that part as well.

> user could not care less

Some publishers are giving the dollars back to the users. Like Fortnite.

Also, because of Apple's rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very horrible experience.

That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. They are okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that they have to sign up in the browser.

> I suppose if you care about the users, you should argue for freedom of running the software you like on the device you buy

Android does allow it. They allow you to install any software. Even software that allows you to bypass Youtube Ads. In fact that is one reason why many stick to android

The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:

Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.

Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.

I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).

edit: To explain "user centric" better

Because of Apple's rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.

That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.

Epic feels the rules set by Apple is not fair. At the first point is where the issue is.

AFAIK they can pre-install Fortnite. Not, EPIC app store, which was what the deal seemed to be about.

I think we are missing the point here.

I might be wrong, but this is my take on this. Google has an agreement with OEM not to install any app store. What google objected was not default app of Fortnite. However, it was a Fornite's game store kind of.

Still Google does not object the user to install anything on their phone, though that is getting a bit difficult with Android 11.

TLDR; this article SEEMS to talk about Epic Games App Store, rather than Fortnite.

Yes they are. Ads in Apstore and News.

Thanks for your perspective from a game dev. w.r.t developing apps it has been long argued that iOS is better.

What makes iOS elegant over Android in your opinion ?

You seem to state it as a fact but I believe it is your opinion .

Are you serious though ?

Except that he testified before the congress on this of monopoly way before this.