boris9999 | 4 years ago | on: Material-UI is releasing v5 and rebrands to mui.com
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boris9999 | 5 years ago | on: React Cosmos – Build UIs at Scale
We replaced storybook with cosmos and it works much better for us. It's light and focused, I enjoy using it much more. Thank you for your work!
boris9999 | 5 years ago | on: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store
How is this a problem? Are all marketplaces bad? Were you forced to sell there?
You chose to sell your app on their marketplace and agreed to their TOS and pricing. They provide you with access to their marketplace and you agree to pay them 20%. Were you aware that these are the terms and broke them anyway?
It's like an Uber diver who will start charging cash without going through the Uber app to avoid paying Uber. Or maybe start a McDonald's franchise and hide all the profits. Not to mention paying taxes to the government...
Apple controls the iOS platform, so it's a different case. Shopify does not prevent you from selling on your own website and taking 100% of the profits.
boris9999 | 5 years ago | on: What Apple doesn’t want you to know about the App Store
You have an explanation for these reviews and I believe it, but the developers you're attacking surely have a good explanation for theirs? Is it possible that bad reviews are not always the result of bad intentions?
I support your effort to improve the App Store and get Apple to be more fair. I don't support using public outrage to accuse other developers of purchasing reviews, without proof, in a way that could harm their income. It's immoral and possibly a tort of defamation.
I don't doubt that you have good intentions but going down this path will just lead to developers using public outrage to try to damage each other, not to Apple adjusting their rules and review process. Someone with enough twitter followers could easily do this to someone else.
boris9999 | 5 years ago | on: What Apple doesn’t want you to know about the App Store
It doesn't make sense to me.
- A developer has no control if someone else decides to buy them fake reviews. That's why Apple could never punish a developer for fake reviews on their app, just like Twitter can't punish an account holder for fake followers. Otherwise you could remove any app by just buying them fake reviews and then "exposing" them on twitter and complaining to Apple.
- When apps ask for a rating, most users will tap a star rating and not bother to leave a review. On the other hand, angry users will be more likely to take the time to write a review. That's why for MOST APPS there are many ratings (usually more positive) and less reviews (usually more negative).
I appreciate the effort to "clean up" the app store, but how about the app that is in OPs twitter bio? It has similar reviews as the "scams" he is "exposing"!
- Jan 18 '...very deceptive'
- Jan 16 'scam!'
- Jan 14 'cheated I want a refund of my money...'
- Jan 14 'They change for the app to download then charge 3.99 to unlock features. Terrible'
- Jan 12 'Horrible i payed to get the app just for me to pay $4 dollars more to unlock the feature of using the keyboard'
Makes me wonder if it's all not just a vendetta against a competitor.
boris9999 | 5 years ago | on: Apple’s App Store is hosting multi-million dollar scams
How to remove a competitor on the app store:
- pay $20 to buy them fake reviews without their knowledge
- complain that they are scammers and have fake reviews
Ironically the guy in the article complains that his competitor is a scammer but I went to check his own app reviews:
- Jan 18 '...very deceptive'
- Jan 16 'scam!'
- Jan 14 'cheated I want a refund of my money...'
- Jan 14 'They change for the app to download then charge 3.99 to unlock features. Terrible'
- Jan 12 'Horrible i payed to get the app just for me to pay $4 dollars more to unlock the feature of using the keyboard'
I guess his app is another example of the scam apps he complains about?
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Also, I was surprised how well the codemod worked with the migration to v5. I've migrated a large code base and almost didn't have to do anything.
The only thing I'm not a big fan of is that using the new 'sx' prop, the styling becomes very specific to the library. But I guess it's more of an issue with the fragmented state of styling in react. I think it'll stick with the 'styled' api since it's more generic.
Great job and thank you!