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It's way more likely because there isn't a public API for changing the application icon on iOS (at least until 10.3 https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiapplication/28...)
...and even when once there is a public API. It is certainly against app store rules to infringe on the trademarks of popular social network companies for what you use as your icon.
I've very recently been enjoying using pomodoro[1] cycles to track my productivity at work and I'd like to translate the same behavior to my side projects and commit to getting 4 cycles done per week (~2 hours), and tracking that information to keep myself accountable.
As Rob Napier pointed out in a great blog post [1]: The app store sustainability problem is definitely not the sort of problem you can just throw money at, and thus can't be responded to by Apple with the same way.
Even in this article it is immediately apparent there is no consensus among the affected as to what the real problem is: Is it lack of free trials? Paid upgrades? Review times?
[1] - https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Founda...:
This is so that after auth the Facebook app has a URL to fast app switch back to and handle the authentication result.
[1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/03/imgur-the-startup-that-doe...
I'm super-confused by this, can anyone explain what sorts of expenses would be this high and labeled as R&D costs for a company like WhatsApp?
It may indeed be a negligible impact as they claim, but using the Time Profiler instrument they could show exactly how much time is spent in the main queue on their swizzled code which would be a much better indication of whether or not the performance impact is negligible than eyeballing a cpu utilization graph.
I personally want to make more OSS contributions, but often I find it hard to find projects where I can contribute meaningfully. Meaning specifically that they are projects that have problems that match my expertise, are actively maintained (my patches will be appreciated), and have unresolved tickets where assistance would be useful (they are looking for outside help).
I imagine there are at-least some OSS maintainers who would like to recruit more contributors as well, and a site that would help match both would be beneficial for everyone.
Unfortunately this also puts developers in a really tough spot if they have a large number of iPad (or other users of obsolete devices) as they are unable to ship updates to that obsolete version and they are forced to either disable this download completely abandoning the customers or have it available and be unable to make any bugfixes or other updates