neoncat

Yah, that's Ori: Will Of The Wisps. Absolutely fantastic platformer. Was a genuine challenge to beat, with an excellent story.

rob53 said:

So AI is using an app that violates Apple’s rules and actually telling people about it. I can’t wait for Apple to find out about it. The developer should lose the license/developer certificate while Apple can immediately cancel all apps using that certificate. I also wonder if Apple could go after the users, including AI. Be careful about removing my comment because all I’m doing is commenting on illegal activity, both the developer’s and user’s violations. I’m talking about the misuse of the obvious Xcode development program. This is not for limited testing, the developer is getting paid which is against Apple rules. 

Your obsessive need for letter-of-the-law adherence is... charming, however AltStore is hardly a secret. There have been numerous articles about it over the years, and he operates it out in the open. Like Hackintoshes, there may be a certain fetish among a subset of Apple White Knights who would like nothing better then for lives to be ruined in pursuit of the purest manifestation of Apple's precious ecosystem, yet no such hammer is ever going to fall. Apple is far too busy trying to figure out where to put all the piles of money it makes every quarter to care.

DuhSesame said:

I think it’s safe to say that Apple has terrible PR.  They don’t want to communicate for the most time.

They don't need to when people are so busy White Knight-ing here and elsewhere. Because that's what a $2T company needs: Free help defending itself on the internet. 

No no, totally a fair question. I kinda laid that out in my first message: I think there's a ton of great stuff on AI. I've read more than a few of their "how to" articles thinking, "aww, I know that already" and it turns out—didn't know it as well as I thought I did. I love learning new things, and AI does a better job than most explaining complex topics. The rumor articles are interesting too, just to see where Apple is headed versus where the industry as a whole is. 

The stuff that's clearly written to "hit an audience" as sportsball-style fan service I mostly ignore, here and elsewhere, and I probably should've done the same to this article. Not sure why I chose to pull the thread, but as is often the case, now the whole sweater lays at my feet. I'll own that. I appreciate that people have been reasonable/measured in their pushback, however (yourself included).

(chuckle) Fair enough. I clearly touched a nerve, and AI made the right editorial decision publishing this piece, then. It generated valuable clicks and pageviews fed into the ad tracking/profiling beast on a day when otherwise there would be few. I still think "content" like this is beneath adults, as is "fandom" for multinational corporations in general, but it's OK if I'm an outlier in that regard.

I'll stand by my broader point, however: The entire tech sector—Apple, Spotify, and everyone in-between—would benefit from the discipline that focus brings. Fewer features, fewer promises. Deliver what you can intelligently and shut up about the rest.