{"id":5610,"date":"2012-08-07T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:47:02","slug":"a-critique-of-the-apple-indie-developer-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/a-critique-of-the-apple-indie-developer-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critique of the Apple Indie Developer Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kswizz.com\/post\/28710957277\/critique-apple-developers\">Kenneth Ballenegger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kswizz.com\/post\/28710957277\/critique-apple-developers\"><p>We have many computing devices; Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and we want to be able to pick up any of them and have access to our data. They need to sync instantly and effortlessly. This means that they require a backend web software component. This means running and maintaining servers. Writing code in a foreign programming language and dealing with a wholly new class of problems. (How do you scale your backend software? Which language \/ platform \/ framework do you use? At which point do you re-architect for a distributed system? Wait, this shit runs on <em>Linux<\/em>?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one thing that, from an outside perspective, Microsoft seems to have done rather well. For more than ten years, it&rsquo;s been shipping a unified framework (.NET) and language (C#) for Web and desktop programming. NeXT had WebObjects\/EOF and Objective-C, then it moved WebObjects to Java and added the Cocoa-Java bridge on the desktop, and we know how that went.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Ballenegger: We have many computing devices; Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and we want to be able to pick up any of them and have access to our data. They need to sync instantly and effortlessly. This means that they require a backend web software component. This means running and maintaining servers. Writing code in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}