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Russell Ivanovic, an app developer behind Pocket Casts, writes about Android, Apple, and security, including a stolen Minecraft account.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his post on the Android screen fragmentation myth to push back on claims that countless screen sizes make Android development hard.
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bitmapbrother · 2017-08-29
Anyone that uses the excuse that there are "Countless screen sizes to worry about" makes me wonder if they even know what they're talking about when it comes to Android development. The developer of Pocket Casts says this is a fallacy:
https://rustyshelf.org/2014/07/08/the-android-screen-fragmentation-myt…
ksk · 2015-01-05
>This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it's just going everywhere.
Well, you're attacking others' opinions for being opinions, and not facts, but your claims are nothing more than opinions too. Sorry, I don't know what your point is?
Just to add my own anecdote, my dad recently asked that his macbook air be reformatted to make it 'fast' again. Meanwhile, the '08 PC that I'm using now is running Win8.1 like a champ.
> Yosemite has some bugs, yes, but so do almost every other major releases of Operating Systems.
Heh, so Apple is just .. like everyone else? No need to hold Apple to a higher standard if that is the case. The entire point of people complaining is that Apple shouldn't be shipping buggy products like the competition.
>Apple does have some bugs to iron out, but in six month's time when they're fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else.
Well, why would Apple fix the bugs if nobody complained? They wouldn't even know about them. Of course that is presuming they fix the bugs they know about.
>To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality.
So why are the everyday users complaining?
Some of the bugs that I've personally come across.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601963?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6604139
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4766577
http://rustyshelf.org/2014/10/01/it-just-works/
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Oh.. And
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/01/it-just-works
Ok,…