Hey! this is Overpass Insights my name is Eric and I make apps, so today I want to talk about
the different developer experiences between Apple and Google and my thoughts on WWDC 2022
Hey! good morning so yesterday I did a video about how gloomy the weather was here in
England and today as if by magic it is glorious it is a glorious sunny morning and I was gonna
do this video at my desk, but you know I just had to go outside and do it
so yesterday was the Apple WWDC conference keynote I don't know if you guys saw it I watch
it every year I used to watch it every year now I just watched the highlights because
right so WWDC stands for the worldwide developer conference, and every single year I watch it
I think the same thing, in fact, I think I've done videos about this in the past as a consumer
I'm getting excited you know as an iPhone user I'm like, oh cool there's new stuff for ios there's
new features everything like that but as an Apple developer as a developer who does apps for
Apple and Google I think how does this help me right you know it was like and I'm not going to go
through some of the new features because they're all kind of you know I wasn't that impressed
with them, there's a new m2 chip for the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro
there's a few IOS changes but nothing really
as a developer that excited me or no announcements
of any new API or anything like that so as a developer I'm just kind of like you know
okay, cool like maybe a client might come through forward and ask I mean you know what it was all
stuff like you know spotlight and stuff like that I mean just I don't know it's almost like they
they don't really think about the developers at all which makes sense now you compare that with
Google io is a completely different thing if you watch the Google io conferences
or the talks it's all about the API it's all about what you can do as a developer right
the audience is all developers it's just really really just a different experience and I always
think it goes back to the beginnings of the iPhone when Steve Jobs didn't even want to have apps on
it's like at first year when the iPhone was out you know 2007. you know they weren't that
big on apps in the app store and then finally they relented they opened up the app store and then it
became this big thing but if you've ever released it if you ever release an app to both Google play
and the app store you know the experience is completely different one of them is more friendly
and easier to do and one of them is more verbose and it just seems like a a complicated process but
every time I talk about that, people say like that's why I only do Android which kind of makes
actually, Google play is getting more and more difficult every single year I mean for those of
you guys just starting now, so to see how easy it was back in like like 2013 2014 back when I got
started probably people even earlier than that had even easier time but like you just hardly had to
fill in anything and now you got all that privacy stuff they always come up with you know now they
actually do go through a review process you know most of the time got to make sure your privacy
policies up to scratch all this kind of stuff but still they give you a lot more analytics they give
you a lot more data they just seem to to support the developer a lot more than Apple does
so when people say well, that's why I'm only an Android developer, I think yes but all the money's
over at Apple like if you could get through it you know if you could yeah I think I always think it's
a mistake if you only support Android if you only support one of the platforms you know
if you do have a, and that's why I like cross-platform frameworks because you know
I don't want to just I don't want all my users to be on Android I don't want all my users to be on IOS
you know I want to be able to support all of them right if we do corporate application we can't say
oh yeah, they can use it if they're you know, iPhone users or they can use if they're android users
every business wants to support both platforms and you know if you're a developer that only does one
or you can only do you know then you're only worth half of what a cross-platform
developer would be worth and that's why you see a lot of corporate stuff go Xamarin go Flutter
go everything like that
so but yeah I was unimpressed with WWDC I don't know what you guys
saw what you know what you thought of it you know
maybe you know as a user yeah you know what I'm kind of excited
about the m2 chip but that's you know that doesn't help me as a developer
unless I buy a new laptop or whatever so but this is a really quick video today just get
outside you know, let me know what do you guys think about what I mean did you watch WWDC
what did you think of it more importantly how do you find the treatment you get as a developer
differs between Apple and Google for those of you guys with the release of both platforms
anyway that is it for today hope you guys have a great day I'll talk to you next time