"If you've built great apps on any platform and care about crafting meaningful user experiences, I'd love to hear from you." ...so I can remove you as a direct competitor to our slop.

oh I'm forgetting that he as a human lives with something so dangerous to humans that it quickly killed an otherwise very fit and healthy cop just from being accidentally scratched by him?

So Mudinho came from a crashed flying machine that caused the army (and apparently some secret US 3 letter agency) to immediately respond, has feet and hands with 3 digits, leaves tracks matching the same, has large bright red eyes with no pupils, no visible ears, and can even fool a room full of doctors? got it.

No it didnt, it linked to an article on Skeptoid.com.
Besides so what even if it was linked? I suggested the poster watched it.

Start a new site called oldiefans

You only think that's not political because you're confusing centrists with leftists.

No, it's because of all the idiotic enablers. We could just solve the problem by walking into the halls of power en masse and removing them but you can only get that kind of energy from total fucking clowns who want anarchy, and not the good kind that doesn't exist (as it leads naturally to feudalism) but the bad kind with only chaos.

Web apps make at least some sense when you are delivering the exact same app via the web and as a local application. But Microsoft isn't doing that, so they make none...

It constantly demonstrates that there has been a dearth of competence at the management level of IT for a long time.

Except Notepad is already a native app. The two concepts are unrelated. The outage was related to a license check (a stupid one), which literally any app could suffer from regardless of whether it is native or written in shitty web frameworks.

Did that, tried to run one of those EXE and got an error. What do I do now?

WhatsApp clearly needs to learn from Discord here and have a one line code that causes it to simply close and restart itself when the Electron framework finally has shat enough over your system resources that you're out of memory.

I'm obviously being sarcastic here, but I am unfortunately not joking about Discord: https://www.remio.ai/post/disc...

The thing about free as in beer is that you're fundamentally within your right to give that beer to someone else. There's a difference between charging for a product and gatekeeping its use. Any attempt to gatekeep fundamentally corrects itself and often comes close to sinking the original project.

Just look to examples like Elasticsearch. Put up a paygate and find your project forked (it was free as in beer after all) and watch yourself slowly slip into irrelevance.
It's just one example of many which have followed this path.

How? Fundamentally big projects like this aren't starved for finance. Wayland was the brainchild of Kristian Høgsberg who was given scope and time to do so while being paid a full time wage for another employer (Intel for much of the time).

The problem is still captivity. It's not a consumer choice. Literally no consumer has ever said "I would like to use an app to pay at just this station", yet the vendors forced this on people anyway. Why? Because it benefits *them* and because consumers have no alternative. The precise mechanism that made this a problem in the first place it the mechanism that prevents it from being solved through consumers. This was always about corporate control.

Customers can't vote with wallets. That's a fundmental problem of understanding. You need conditions of a perfect market with equal power for consumers to have choice. Charging isn't that.

Think of it as the difference between a supermarket: Customer has the power not to shop, and a midnight convenience store, people who use that do so out of necessity and don't have the power not to shop.

I gave an example in my other post. I drive to another State in the USA. My car pings me that I have less than 10% battery (35mile range) so I select a charging station on the side of the highway. Detour. Get out. Walk to the post and ... it needs an app. Now what do I do?
a) spend 2min installing the app? - company wins
b) get back in the car having wasted 2 min at this stop, drive down to the next (and possibly final) option for charging and try my luck again knowing that I may need to install an app anyway?
c) plan ahead in a way that further perpetuates the range concern of electric cars and stop to fill up when I still have 30% left potentially requiring another stop to my destination (which costs way more than 2minutes).

The sensible option is a) and it's the one most consumers will pick because of this market captivity. There's no real choice to vote with your wallet, not without incurring a personal cost in terms of time.