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Comment by wiseowise | Hacker News Reader

Ironic how DHH ditched everything Apple after the whole lawsuit shenanigans, but keeps using Google stuff.

Chrome is nearly singlehandedly responsible for the open web being as good as it is and the whole web 2.0 boom. Computing changed after Chrome was released... Between Chrome and Google Docs, it basically made platform agnostic computing possible...

Also Google makes it easy to skirt around the 30% through sideloading and web signups.

Similarly that people are interested in running anything made by him after he's repeatedly shown his true colors.

What are his true colors?

He deviated from progressive orthodoxy.

His egotistical BS goes way beyond that.

Does this kind of woke scolding still work?

No, and thats a good thing

Yes, and that's a good thing.

I don’t necessarily agree with his political opinions. And that’s a huge understatement.

But DHH has, and continues, to do a lot to share his obvious passion and endless curiosity for tech. I’m not going to stop following him and enjoying his work just because he is not as woke as I am. Politics is not everything.

He a self important egotistic who's finally admitted he's been wrong the whole time and "discovered" what's been under his nose for over 20 years after all the people he kept shitting on did all the hard work to make Linux a fantastic option for dev work.

If you don't care about the privacy angle, and he apparently doesn't, Google's offerings are hard to beat.

The original issue is that Apple takes 30% if you use in-app purchases, which Google also does.

to make that more precise.. the issue was Apple was forcing you to use in-app purchases for an app they played no part in getting customers for, and then taking 30%

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