Post #2103306

@leftylabourtech @danneau @zazzoo @pluralistic This has been going on for a long time. I started writing iOS apps for clients with iOS 2. I had many in the app store. At first I would only release new versions when I had new features to release. But, over time it became necessary tor release new versions to keep up with changes in iOS. It got worse and worse. After a while, many features had multiple APIs the app had to embrace for the same feature or service. Then Apple ramped up their release schedule and they touted how many new APIs each release had. They pushed that as a feature in itself. But, the reality was that you couldn't actually own an app anymore. You could write it and submit it to the app store, but you were only renting it. Every release, the rent came due again and you had to pay with engineering time, to keep it in the store. Apps didn't stay written. They decayed because the operating system wasn't fertile ground. It meant to destroy them. Only big companies could survive it.