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Your fingerprint data is encrypted, stored on device, and protected with a key available only to the Secure Enclave. Your fingerprint data is used only by the Secure Enclave to verify that your fingerprint matches the enrolled fingerprint data. It can’t be accessed by the OS on your device or by any applications running on it. It's never stored on Apple servers, it's never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else, and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.
Swift 2.2 + Xcode 7 wasn't great, but it was livable.
Constraint SourceKit crashes makes Xcode essentially a text editor and not a good one. All indexing, highlighting essentially all IDE functionally lost.
This is the worst development experience that I've seen in 20+ years as a developer.
I thought the CoreData / CloudKit debacle from 3 years ago was bad, but oh my God, I just want to jump ship and go to Android, switch to Xamarin, or just leave mobile at this point.
It would be nice to have some level of optimism and say this is growing pains, but I don't have any faith that the Apple developers are competent in making this better.
Comparing to the Web. How many new web sites are brought up each day, and out of those how many will gain significant traffic, and generate any significant revenue?
But finding Apps is hard? Yes it could be better, but you can use the Web to your harts content to promote your App which is searchable, assuming that's the problem.
This makes me think of the guy who did the Carrot weather App. An independent developer that took an over saturated category and did something unique.
At the same time thousands of weather Apps, that all look like clones of each other where submitted to the App Store, and nobody cares, but the problem is the App Store right?