John Gruber
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90 minutes or two hours after it starts and it's over and people are talking about the stuff that was announced and we're all gonna be like, hey, wait a second, they didn't even talk about the whole vibe coding thing.
They didn't even mention it.
And to me, that would be a red flag because yes, it's disruptive to the way that the software distribution and development has worked on the platform for 20 years now.
Yeah.
They just need to have an answer because it's like part of part of what makes disruption theory so satisfying as a business theory is that the disrupted doesn't get to choose.
Yeah.
Like but that's what happens there.
The just the the entrenched.
Monopoly or part of a duopoly or just entrenched way of doing things faces the disruptive technology.
They dismiss it at first.
Then when it becomes bigger and kind of can't be ignored, they just sort of say, well, I choose not to be disrupted.
And it's like, you can say that, but it never works.
Never works.
No, no, it's a powerful force.
And it is, in my opinion, just nerding out.
Going back, my undergraduate degree was in computer science.
It is, in some ways, offensive to me
that iOS is a nearly 20-year-old platform.
It is a computer.
And it's a 20-year-old computer on which you cannot make software for the computer itself.