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Market share is not really relevant about this, what matter's here is which platform drives more revenue and that's iOS pretty much everywhere. These companies are data-driven, they don't choose where to invest based on ideology or geography, but on ROI. iOS brings the majority of the money and so the majority of the investment goes there.

Usually businesses that make money out of mobile apps are very data driven, I promise you that if they could make more money from Android they would already been doing it. They still have an Android offering, but it's underinvested because it brings less money.

There's a saying in mobile development that in most companies the Android version of the app is a second class citizen. It usually brings substantially less money and so less money are invested in it. As a result the Android team is often understaffed and the app is almost always behind in feature development, less polished and with overall worse UX and more bugs compared to the iOS app.

Also iOS still has a community of iOS only indie devs that publish polished apps for iOS, it's very common to find very popular iOS app with very curated UX that are exclusive to that platform and have a good fanbase.

It's interesting that the the author created three saas over the weekend as some sort of proof that execution is useless now. But would any company ever buy one of these? No, because for a company to buy your saas you need salespeople or some marketing channel, compliance and regulatory checkmarks, SSO integrations, ability to take and implement special feature requests, SLAs, maintenance and support capacity, etc.

That's the execution part of creating a successful business and it's still entirely missing.

Is there a way to have unread items go in an archive instead of disappearing? Sometimes I find insightful to re-look at the titles of things I've saved, even if I don't read them. It brings me back the why I saved it and it always unlocks some thought.

Such a weird take on this.

Yes it's a stupid trend (most trends are), but that doesn't mean it exists because of some hidden power conspiring to take control of western society.

Except no party is doing this, but very capitalist firms in an attempt to appeal to new segments, to refresh their brand and to be on the news with their products. They follow a trend to fortify their business, that's it.

The fallacy of your argument is that it somehow implies some coordinated attempt by some kind of obscure force that is conspiring to control society. That's no different than other conspiracy theories.

You would need a platform for that. Coincidentally t's exactly what Upwork does.

Thank you. I eventually got an offer for a job that I like, but it surely took a good while.

I don't see how Bitcoin can fix terrible customer support issues. The problem here is that either:

a) OP is stuck in a cycle where he's inquiries are managed by bots and no human is actually verifying the claims.

b) OP breached the terms in a serious way and UpWork is not being transparent as of why they are deleting his account.

UpWork offers a lot of services for both freelancers and clients (escrow, payment protection, guarantees, etc), that's why they handle the money and keep them on platform until the job are completed. Freelancers know that they will get paid if they get the job done, while clients know that they money are safe if the freelance doesn't deliver. It's a trusted middleman. I don't see how bitcoin can solve any of these issues.

I've been job hunting for the last six months.

I usually spend around 20hr on the test task they give me. On top of this there are at least 3/4 rounds of interview (spanning from half an hour to two hours).

I tend to make sure that the job actually exists though and I'm wary of small companies. I'm particularly avoiding the ones where I would be the only developer working on my domain/stack.

> Modern world requires eggs to last longer, could be 3 months before an egg hits the shelf at the grocery store.

Here in EU eggs have printed on them the date they were laid, I never seen eggs in a supermarket more than a few days older.