[HN Gopher] Apple's API's Are Awful (At Least Some of Them)
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Apple's API's Are Awful (At Least Some of Them)
Author : speedyapoc
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-08-26 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| TheNightman wrote:
| If you think this is bad, try an Apple TV app! A lot of the
| platform APIs, like the one mentioned in the article, are still
| in objective C and really beginning to show their age. The worst
| is when you want to do something in SwiftUI but the platform APIs
| are UIKit (':
| kridsdale3 wrote:
| Sheesh, it's not that bad! 10 years ago the same things were
| considered the nicest app APIs to work with in the biz,
| spawning the whole ZIRP app ecosystem.
|
| I guess if people feel like you do, I'll stay employed.
| drekipus wrote:
| > And so Apple, I say, whoever had a hand in this should be
| ashamed of themselves. You can and should do better. I love
| SwiftUI. I love building iOS apps. But please clean this up.
|
| As a recent macbook convert (work gave me one) I have to remind
| myself every day:
|
| Apple is not a software company. Their business is to sell
| hardware at a premium. Software is an afterthought, and if they
| could offload software, they would. The sleek aluminium case,
| lovely screen, arm processor.. that's what you're getting.
|
| You're not paying a premium for the inability to stack windows,
| or for shitty dual monitor support, or for awful
| application/state management.
|
| Apple is a hardware company. They don't give a shit about
| software.
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