Not interested on flamewars here. Reading this thread it looks like merits of system is upon peoples arbitrary metrics based on varying perspectives. So a constructive discussion is not going to happen.
So until there is some standardised comparison probably making any statements about merits or demerits, including mine are just opinions without facts.
I was surprised by this statement as well. I think the author wanted to paint a picture how miserable things are. Things definitely are difficult for them financially.
The prices stated however is bit too over exaggerated. A dinner that starts at $47 in India is something would have made me think 10 times before going for it. You can have a really good dinner for two at 10$ at a nice restaurant in India.
A trillion dollar publicly traded company sure care about money and PR.
I understand being a developer who does a passion project or an app. But I can't buy into, Apple forcing any developer to make a decision in a very short term.
Almost all new guidelines comes with a 3 months interval before being enforced. And most times the deadlines get extended https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03262020b
Apple waits a year or more before removing the Apps that don't follow a newly enforced guideline. The restriction is a problem with app submissions that comes in after a deadline
The author's revenge seems to be against his users who opted to used Sign In with Apple. Since they will be the one suffering because they trusted to use the particular app.
I can find merit in complaining about apple's restriction in accessing payments. But SignIn with Apple, as a user I will always opt for that given my email won't be available with a third party forever for them to spam or sell.
I have integrated SignIn with Apple both in an app and backend. I never felt it was particularly difficult or under-documented.
I agree that the preview of Xcode build looks it is very tightly integrated with Xcode
>Xcode Cloud requires you to push your repository to their servers, and you have to configure the "Workflows" via their desktop application.
The code still lives with your preferred Git hosting provider. Xcode Cloud copies/clones the code just like any conventional CI. Once the build is done, Apple claims to remote/delete any copy of it.
> No configuration as code, no shell scripts you can run from your existing CI/CD, no ability to trigger a build remotely or push code to them on demand. You can't even synchronously wait on a build to finish - you have to set up a web server and listen for a webhook! You can't integrate it with your existing CI/CD - whether that's GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, etc.
I will reserve my comments about inter-op till they release their API and I get to play with it.
Xcode Cloud seems to be a blessing for iOS developers who don't have exposure to CI/CD systems. And that includes most iOS developers. And also it will be a blessing for companies since hiring good CI/CD engineers for iOS is really hard.
My personal view is, Xcode cloud does a lot of things what fastlane was doing using Apples Cloud infrastructure.
I was not disagreeing with the articles claim people flouting rules caused a spike. But the people or the country isn't by itself responsible. Rather a callous government that was indifferent to this pandemic is.
It had an year to prepare. It did nothing more than PR works
The initial lock down and panic eventually made people deny existence of Covid, along with a narrative that Indians are immune to Covid. Later the leadership started claiming India already conquered Covid. https://www.livemint.com/science/health/we-are-in-the-endgam...
To answer your question, people were gathering for events other than rallies
Opinion columns are not scientific sources. To the article's credit recklessness from people are is the reason for the spike. But doesn't absolves a leadership that claimed to have concurred Covid-19 and have no clue about disaster management. Indians deserved better.
I agree with you that larger mass gatherings have a clear responsibility. However, cherry-picking the farmers protest which was dissenting a government policy when there were multiple other events and a clearly clue-less government feels like government propaganda.
What are the sources of this claim ? A general consensus was the false narrative that claimed India have conquered Covid, resulting in people ignoring the safety measured cause this.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01059-y
If you are looking for super spreader events its more likely the large election gatherings caused a spike.
Blaming a protest that was taking place even months before looks like propaganda.
Impressive that it works well with my native language Malayalam. However, it would be nice to notify the user that adding a profile picture is required to sign up. My girlfriend who is non-tech savvy was confused + stuck at the page.
So until there is some standardised comparison probably making any statements about merits or demerits, including mine are just opinions without facts.