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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:56 JST mcc

   • Damien ✨

   @vikxin @Eramdam No, this is 100% the reason why. Everything on Android is an order of magnitude harder than literally anywhere else.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:24:56 JST mcc

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     • Damien ✨

     @vikxin @Eramdam Apple puts a lot of effort to deliver what they see as a really top-notch developer experience but really all they had to do was develop a basic sort of normal developer experience. All you have to do to beat Android is not actively get in the developer's way.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:25:02 JST mcc

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     • Damien ✨

     @Eramdam @vikxin I mean, device fragmentation is a separate problem. If your platform is fragmented, that is a "real" problem. You'd have to work very hard to solve that problem, if you solved it at all. That is not a problem Android *created for itself*. It's a problem that comes naturally from being the platform that isn't locked down and single-vendor.

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     Damien ✨ (eramdam@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:25:04 JST Damien ✨

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     @mcc @vikxin The horror stories I heard from the Android devs at work... shit like
     "Oh yeah this bug is only exclusive to Samsung phones because they re-implemented this API in a stupid way"
     or
     "Oh yeah that flagship phone that costs 800$? It has a shitty I/O controller so caching shit is awfully slow"

     Boggles my mind

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 15:25:09 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • Damien ✨

     @mcc I tried my hand at working on some existing Android app but failed to install a persistently working android studio on Guix ?

     That was when I decided that just making a website with some Javascript is actually a valid way to provide an app-like experience.
     @vikxin @Eramdam

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