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   abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:40:24 JST abadidea

   Why do iOS apps update so much. “Bug fixes and improvements.” You’ve said that every week for eight years. I’m impressed by the commitment honestly but what are you DOING in there

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:40:23 JST abadidea

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     @glyph I’m not asking so much why they say “bug fixes and improvements” even if I find it annoyingly vague — but rather where does a simple little app find something worth pushing a deployment over every week for eight years

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:40:24 JST Glyph

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     @0xabad1dea I have never actually released an application on a storefront iOS style, but the first time I saw this I thought the answer was obvious: it's the developer equivalent of taking the 5th. This UI element is presented as a communication channel to users, but anything you put in there (whether serious or trying to be "fun") is both additional work to write and also a pretext that you are volunteering to have your app rejected and your business ruined

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:49:06 JST Rich Felker

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     @0xabad1dea On Android that means "we added more spyware and ads, and took away free features".

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     jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 17:15:43 JST jaseg

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     @0xabad1dea This is actually one of the reasons I switched away from Spotify. Out of nowhere, they would twiddle with the UI of their (android) app every few weeks. They would constantly change little things, continuously re-inventing what winamp did good enough in like 2007. They would never improve things by a lot, but sometimes-very annoyingly-make things slightly worse.

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     jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 17:15:53 JST jaseg

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     @0xabad1dea Tge only reason I could imagine for this waste of engineering effort was that they have a massive engineering headcount, and those teams full of people were basically making up stuff to do so they don't get fired.

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