TLDR: developer gets on high horse about apple secret API’s in long rambling post
I would agree and I find myself actually annoyed, As a developer, I both understand why apple has and needs secret API’s that only they can use.
I think it’s amazing what the workflow team has done with shortcuts, but I believe that they should have been able to do that without being merged into apple. I recently left a very good job at IBM because I wanted freedom from corporate to develop what software I wanted, how I wanted to, and I think the bifurcation of the developer space is a bad thing.
If I want to do activities in the background I should not have to sell my company to apple and give up my creative control.
I just made a point in another thread Here about how I agree, that the apple services are good enough for most people, and my general recommendation, but that they don’t support every use case.
I can’t use apple notes for instance because I have a multi operating system life, I rely on third party’s to provide an experience everywhere, and if apple has secrets sauce that lets them have features that 3rd parties can’t replicate, that’s unfair.
Apple would never do this, because it removes the competitive advantage that their apps have, but I believe that the operating system should have all the special sauce in the world, but that applications built on top of that should be equal, apple should have to use the same services, go through the same hoops as the rest of us internally. And they should have taken a moment to think about why they need a special API for something, and that if they need it others probably do to.