Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
— Matthew 7:7-8, KJV
> the fact that a Swift iOS developer would now need to still learn some Android with Java to write the Android native code for the feature complicates things greatly. Now you need to know three languages to do a feature on your own.
Can't put it more clearly as you have said.
This is like back in the days of doing cross-browser development where there are 3 of them: IE, Chrome(webkit), Firefox.
This story is fascinating. Computers were designed to be black-and-white. It seems like the automation tool that was in place is not transparent or restrictive that its hard to figure out why that happened to you.
Glad to hear that you are able to continue on your job.
You are not alone on this one. I myself have also been through this experience.
Have you considered a different option ?
How about building your own start-up to serve real business needs? Or working on open source projects. There are a lot of opportunities to look forward into.
Why keep banging your head multiple times on something, when you can use that energy on other meaningful ways.
All for-profit organizations employ "Boiling frog" [1] strategy depending upon the market, consumers, and as their product goes through evolution. Whether the end-goal of it is for good or not, it's hard to judge.
The fear of change expressed on this article is natural.
Enforcing HTTPS is good for consumers. But, we need to watch carefully with the market dominance of Google Chrome.
Valve have probably done market research on this. And you know, that this numbers are favorable for them. They have age profile of its userbase and they also have age filter on their catalog. This is a business decision choice rather than morality.
As for me, I also dislike Github being owned by Microsoft. Big conflict of interest. Microsoft core business is closed-source software.
But, it's not wrong to give Microsoft a chance to cultivate Github. Yes, Microsoft have a long track record of being disproportion with open source products. This is also true with other companies.
Good thing to point out is, there are alternatives.