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<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I'm forever surprised Apple didn't buy Bartender when it was for sale.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> no, I know they don’t typically acquire… but they could and it wouldn’t cost them much in the grand scheme of things. Even if they toss all the code and rebuild the feature, it would just be a nice gesture… and I’m not talking crazy Silicon Valley VC acquisition prices, but enough to give the devs a few years of runway to figure out their next project. The other option is to Sherlock them and leave them hanging which leaves a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths.</p>
<p>Hot take that is fresh off the brain-press, and that wisdom would probably dictate that I edit first:</p><p>Using technological products and services that can unilaterally enforce arbitrary policies against you without you having the ability to dissent or choose differently *is* a form of obedience in advance. In particular, if your choice of products and services means that you cannot meaningfully disobey in the future, you have already preemptively obeyed.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jackbrewster" class="u-url mention">@<span>jackbrewster</span></a></span> yeah and that’s great to know — I just don’t think it’s a tangible solution. The Apple people prob assume the solution is to not have apps in the menu bar but like, fuck off.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@covercash" class="u-url mention">@<span>covercash</span></a></span> I mean, that isn’t historically true at all. They don’t acquire many but they do acquire some. I don’t think a thing like a way to manage menu bar overflow is a thing that needs to be an acquisition tho. Apple could build that feature in a much more integrated way that wouldn’t require the overhead and I don’t think the idea itself is so novel it necessitates an acquisition.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jackbrewster" class="u-url mention">@<span>jackbrewster</span></a></span> yeah that’s not the native way tho. that’s changing your default resolution to make up for a glaring UX deficiency.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> I’ve been uninstalling a lot of applications on my MacBook lately cause I don’t want to put up with their system tray clutter and don’t want to use another app just to handle that clutter.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> if Apple really cared about indie apps/devs, they’d just acquire them. The cost would be a rounding error on their balance sheet and would create immense goodwill in the dev community. But they don’t care and never have.</p>