Market share is not really relevant about this, what matter's here is which platform drives more revenue and that's iOS pretty much everywhere. These companies are data-driven, they don't choose where to invest based on ideology or geography, but on ROI. iOS brings the majority of the money and so the majority of the investment goes there.
Usually businesses that make money out of mobile apps are very data driven, I promise you that if they could make more money from Android they would already been doing it. They still have an Android offering, but it's underinvested because it brings less money.
There's a saying in mobile development that in most companies the Android version of the app is a second class citizen. It usually brings substantially less money and so less money are invested in it. As a result the Android team is often understaffed and the app is almost always behind in feature development, less polished and with overall worse UX and more bugs compared to the iOS app.
Also iOS still has a community of iOS only indie devs that publish polished apps for iOS, it's very common to find very popular iOS app with very curated UX that are exclusive to that platform and have a good fanbase.
It's interesting that the the author created three saas over the weekend as some sort of proof that execution is useless now. But would any company ever buy one of these? No, because for a company to buy your saas you need salespeople or some marketing channel, compliance and regulatory checkmarks, SSO integrations, ability to take and implement special feature requests, SLAs, maintenance and support capacity, etc.
That's the execution part of creating a successful business and it's still entirely missing.
Is there a way to have unread items go in an archive instead of disappearing? Sometimes I find insightful to re-look at the titles of things I've saved, even if I don't read them. It brings me back the why I saved it and it always unlocks some thought.
This might not be entirely true. People were able to fetch urls and data from the internet that couldn't possibly be in any training dataset (in eg posted the same day for the first time).
Except no party is doing this, but very capitalist firms in an attempt to appeal to new segments, to refresh their brand and to be on the news with their products. They follow a trend to fortify their business, that's it.
The fallacy of your argument is that it somehow implies some coordinated attempt by some kind of obscure force that is conspiring to control society. That's no different than other conspiracy theories.
I don't see how Bitcoin can fix terrible customer support issues. The problem here is that either:
a) OP is stuck in a cycle where he's inquiries are managed by bots and no human is actually verifying the claims.
b) OP breached the terms in a serious way and UpWork is not being transparent as of why they are deleting his account.
UpWork offers a lot of services for both freelancers and clients (escrow, payment protection, guarantees, etc), that's why they handle the money and keep them on platform until the job are completed. Freelancers know that they will get paid if they get the job done, while clients know that they money are safe if the freelance doesn't deliver. It's a trusted middleman. I don't see how bitcoin can solve any of these issues.
I usually spend around 20hr on the test task they give me. On top of this there are at least 3/4 rounds of interview (spanning from half an hour to two hours).
I tend to make sure that the job actually exists though and I'm wary of small companies. I'm particularly avoiding the ones where I would be the only developer working on my domain/stack.
I'm sorry you couldn't find them. Here are some comments with personal attacks and judgements that I found on this very comment section here on HN:
> Have some humility with your cheap box dye, ugh
> When I see this kind of attitude I know that this person is burned out and needs to find something new to do.
> So, no offense, but get the fuck over yourself or find a new job.
> Yeah, when you start to describe your daily work with words like "burden", you're usually not in a good mental state.
> The Twitter OP sounds like someone that’s a bit full of themselves and struggles to see other perspectives—-a core skill to be a broadly respected leader.
> Toxic attitude. I hope to hell to not work with someone like that.
These are either attacks or judgements of her character, based on a single statement (or opinion if they actually went to read the entire thread).
One thing is to say "you are wrong" and another is to say "you are wrong and burned out/mentally unstable/full of yourself/unable to be a leader/toxic".
Again, I would be very curious if I would find these kind of remarks in a parallel universe where this thread was not posted by a woman with dyed hairs. Bias is a real thing and the fact that she's actually wrong in this instance doesn't make bias justified or less problematic.
I really wish I could see the reactions to this tweet in a parallel universe where it was not written by a woman with died hairs. I have a hunch that the disagreement wouldn't come with personal attacks and judgments on OP's character.
So Google owns the IP but doesn't support the maintainers that do all the work and keep it running. They take the credit, the value of the brand and do nothing.
Can't the maintainers do a fork, continue their work with a new name and then maybe start a foundation or something to attract money and support it? Fastlane is a very mission critical piece of software for many companies, I'm sure some of them would support it if it's an indie project and not a Google property.
You know that joke that facebook is an over-engineered birthday reminder app? I would make the point that social media are also over-engineerd news feeds.
The vast majority of people get their news from some kind of feed. Be it Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, whatever. Scrolling a feed is what gets news to most people. I can see the purpose of making an app that does just that, instead of having to also live with 3000 social features i don't care about (and all the noise and pointless posts they bring to the feed).
I also don't agree on the chronologically ordered list of things i choose to follow. I tried to do that and as soon as you put any kind of news outlet it's going to flood your feed of things you don't care about. I want to follow TechCrunch, Ars Technica or The Verge, but you can be sure that I don't want to see every article they post. I just want to have them on my radar for that more noteworthy stories. And I also want to discover new things, trending articles or topic that might have nothing to do with what i specifically follow.
That's why i also go on HN or reddit for news, because there's some kind of user curation where only the interesting articles ends up on my feed. I get to disover things that i don't already know and follow, plus i get curated news selection that should filter the noise while letting me know what's the hot topic of the week.
But if the articles are selected by upvotes, then we have echo-chambers and both this site, reddit or any other social media are prime examples of this. You really get only a narrow and often biased slice.
An app whose sole purpose is to give you news and articles you find interesting might have an incentive to do so without trapping you in a filter bubble. Or maybe not, only time will tell.