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The author’s thesis is that devs spend wasted effort adapting their apps to Apple’s annual hardware design changes instead of making the app that they really want.
jumbo phone hell
"It does seem like there is a lot of overfitting necessary to make the visual design of things look right on each pocket computer model.
I’m not saying that we should make a fixed standard for pocket computers, but maybe some standard tools for families of devices? Surely design can be made to flow for that and look good and not all samey.
See also the folk programmers post. We don’t know what we’re doing.