3. People greatly over estimate the amount of work it takes to setup a vps, especially with a OS deployment service like Coolify and the like. Takes less than an hour. You act like it’s a full time job when unless you’re app has completely blown up, it’s set once and forget.
Is there anything we can actually do to push back on this? I get we can long term just not buy their products, but it feels like there needs to be more urgent action then that.
It works well with a very specific stack of chosen tools. Not to say it won’t scale to others but if you aren’t a react dev using tailwind and shadcn it’s useless for now.
How is this different than a big brand stealing a design and putting it on a Tshirt? The product in question is a video and it used art without permission.
Steve is very clearly stuck in a position where he has to kill 3rd party apps, but you really have to think there was a much better way to go about doing this. His AMA right now is embarrassing.