The most frustrating thing - Apple's implementation still today is just a subset of what we were building 20+ years ago. We were set up to support multiple storefronts from the start - with centralized automated app testing, signing, and certification. *sigh*

My project was scuttled 20 years ago - and I knew then that PalmOS was ultimately doomed and that a better more developer friendly platform would inevitably sweep in. Microsoft was trying (poorly), but then Apple came along and changed everything.

I was leading the skunkworks project to build a platform standard on-device and over-the-air purchasing infrastructure that would have made it fun and easy for developers to explore a range of business models, and it even supported and had buy-in from multiple storefronts.

But this gave me deja vu - "The threat, as I’ve long tried to argue, perhaps unsuccessfully, is that market forces will work against it eventually. Developers have long since grown resentful..." - Palm took its developer community for granted, and didn't make it easier for them to make $$$.

For now all we can do is shelter in place, work to minimize the damage, take care of those around us….

And wait to build back better once this wildfire burns itself out.

*hugs to all*

Happy President’s Day. 😢

And his own coalition is horribly divided internally around just what it wants to accomplish.

Most of the American people don’t want this - and many of the rest still have no idea just how drastic the damage being done is.

And Trump's is a pretty sad mandates - barely a victory:
Trump (2024) - 49.78% popular vote share, 1.47% margin.

So Trump’s mandate is only historic in the sense that it is historically weak - one of the weakest in ever.

Looking at all the presidential elections of the past century - Trump’s margin of victory was historic indeed.

Historically small.

This is what a huge mandate actually looks like:
FDR (1936) - 60.80% popular vote share, 24.26% margin of victory.

No matter what they try to tell you - Trump didn’t win by a landslide.

He does not have a huge mandate.

He didn’t even get a majority of the votes.

Indeed - more Americans actually voted against him than for him.

This is just horrific. 🤮

I really think that this is the sort of thing Apple should require being supported in order for the Netflix app to be distributed in the App Store. *sigh*

Do not give him any ideas. 🤮

That is an even more urgent update than changing aeronautical charts to reference the Gulf of America, clearly. This sort of regressive nonsense that no-one ever seriously asked for is pitifully sad. 😢

Welcome Pete! You are one of the leaders I am most looking towards for guidance in the fight ahead. You have always come across as reasoned and honest and not afraid. So... What next?