Smokey Ardisson: Remixing John Gruber

Commenting on a post about iPhone apps, Daring Fireball?s John Gruber writes:

[J]ailbreak users expect everything to magically just work and will blame legit apps, rather than the hacks they?re running, for crashes.

Substitute ?Users of InputManager hacks? for ?Jailbreak users? and you have the bane of the Mac software developer?s existence.

Sadly, you can also substitute ?Users of NPAPI plug-ins? for ?Jailbreak users? and ?legitimate browser plug-ins? for ?hacks? and explain most web browser (and many web view-using application) crashes, which are the bane of the web browser developer?s existence.¹

¹ Simmons?s final lament is just as true for web browsers as it is for non-browser applications that use a web view. ?

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