I keep hearing about walled gardens, and not how it’s merely a choice among many. Linux works on tablets and phones. What’s that? It’s a janky mess?
Maybe developers could stop looking at the green grass on Apples side of the fence and bring that polish to open-source.
But I imagine that will simply devolve into the mess it already is, with flame wars, and figurative genital punching to prove how hardcore one is for the obfuscated C they cobbled together.
There was time when Linux distributions were thought of as walled gardens. Cobble together just the right collection of source for you! Don’t let Red Hat control your mind! SystemD is a cage for your soul!
Meanwhile, Apple just got the damn job done and moved on.
If it’s a choice between masochistic elitism or filtered content. Hmmm…
Behavioral patterns for a user are not tethered to one ephemeral implementation.
I ran a huge VMWare cluster in 3 data centers across the globe, not so different from an AWS/EKS pipeline.
Yes, I had to treat the hardware like pets to an extent. But the developers had no problem pivoting between VMWare and what we ran in AWS because the software tooling we provided looked the same.
Some folks believe memorizing YouTube videos = expertise.
At least with the founders I’ve worked for it’s hard to agree they are owed that much more.
They fund raised. Poorly.
They offered zero direction, touted a big number as potential revenue.
They traveled ostensibly to fund raise, but usually just brought back personal stories of fun.
While we all slogged on “their” vision, which meant rearranging deck chairs to the march of some alpha non-contributor who can brown nose.
It was effectively our company with some entitled assholes name on the paperwork.
I’m guessing there’s many more founders like that, as I’ve had the “fortune” to work for 3 in the past, versus the one I work for now, who knows the problem space, has worked directly on solutions for years, and shows up everyday with new customers chomping at the bit to sign up.
So I feel confident saying: Most founders are idea people with no skills. Just a used car salesmen personality and a richer network.
Part of that exceptional grit; grimace and put up with it as hard as you can.
Don’t touch that rule or imma flip out on you!