@slightlyoff The target for this shouldn't be the developers but the people who are paying them. Developers care about tech brands. Smart business folk care about audience. Making your product less accessible to ~50% of your audience is breathtakingly dumb.
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe you'd catch more flies with a "money on the table" argument, rather than appealing to their socialist consciences
@bp You would think that, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I've been doing this a long, long time now, and the grim reality is that you don't know what will work with any given team/org until you try out a few different arguments, and 90% of the time status quo bias wins regardless.
The single most effective thing so far has been CWV, which is a pocket book play from authority, but even that has not broken the JavaScript/Industrial Complex's grip.
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I've always been told that the "I" in iPhone stand for "idiot"
@slightlyoff to me, nothing is a particular "brand" of smartphone, it is a rectangle of a certain size running the web just like all the others.
@codinghorror But that's untrue in at least two measurable senses, right?
The first is that folks carrying iOS devices are living in a bubble of connectivity and CPU luxury. The data is unequivocal about that.
The second is that "the web" on iOS is a bad facsimile of what we could have. I've documented this at length, as has @owa:
https://infrequently.org/series/browser-choice-must-matter/
It's a perverse combination of overpowered hardware and underpowered software that makes the web worse for everyone via wealth effects.
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Those are not "developers", they are Apple's bonobos.
@slightlyoff The target for this shouldn't be the developers but the people who are paying them. Developers care about tech brands. Smart business folk care about audience. Making your product less accessible to ~50% of your audience is breathtakingly dumb.
@EI3JDB I do, indeed, make the case in my series (which these updated #s are in prep for) that this is a PM crisis, first and foremost. PMs in the modern tech era are just phoning it it, most of the time. Totally failing to engage with the evidence around them or, you know, *managing* their products:
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Send those developers this talk -- which is unfortunately about to turn 10 years old, but a recent blog post of his confirms it is more relevant than ever:
@slightlyoff@toot.cafe I made an interactive map of the Apple/Android split once to try and visualise it for our design team
https://hryggrbyr.github.io/statistics-maps/apple-android-global-split/
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