Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps!
Today, let's talk about hashtag I make apps!
Okay, so today's video is gonna be slightly off topic. Yesterday's video is
episode 401 and there was a comment on there from datapluscode which said,
"Slightly off topic, but I always associated the slogan "I make apps"
with the Overpass Channel..." Yeah, me too. "But recently, Google started running a
campaign to profile Android developers with the same slogan, #Imakeapps.
Maybe Google are secret fans of the
channel. This is the second time someone's pointed this out to me and
when I saw it the first time I thought, "Oh, they're using the same slogan that I
say every day." So, I started saying this, I think on my second video I've ever done
in front the camera, which was back in, I think, it was in July of 2014. We're
talking about like last four years, I started every video with "Hi, my name is
Eric and I make apps!", I did - about two years, I did a
hundred episodes of the weekly A Minute of Overpass and then all the last 400
episodes. We're talking about like 500 episodes where I say 'My name is Eric and
I make apps." So, when I saw this a few weeks ago and then again I was looking
at it again today, I was thinking maybe it's not that original, I make apps.
Maybe I should start saying something else. And I've been talking about it with
my team and you know, saying maybe we can think of something else to say each
video. But I'm just so used to seeing it, it just rolls off the tongue now. "Hey, my
name is Eric, I make apps!" But if you, guys, have any ideas of something else to talk,
to say like has an intro or maybe just don't say it like just say, "Hey, this is
the Daily Overpass. My name is Eric." It just doesn't feel right. Anyway, but I
do like the campaigns. I'll just talk a little bit about the campaign.
I've watched a few of those videos, the #Imakeapps videos and I think
it's great that Google Developers Channel is showcasing app developers.
I mean, they can't showcase everybody and and part of me as a - as an app developer
you see this and kind of jealous a little bit like, "Hey, why are they
showing that guy?" But I think it's great that they're
doing it. It's such a big contrast with Apple where it seems like Apple is
they're tired of app developers. They, yeah, I just get that impression
from them. They just - they don't want more app developers. They want
people producing less.They're trying to slow down the tide, but
or Google is, you know, they're still celebrating it like whenever someone
talks about apps are dead. Sometimes I hear that. I heard this last month.
I was in a meeting with somebody who was telling me, "You know, the thing
about the app market," and he wasn't an app developer by the way, he was just a -
he didn't have any products out there as far as I know. But he was telling me
his opinion. "Yeah, the thing is though I hear that the app market is gonna die
and it's gonna be this progressive uhh..." 'The progressive web apps?" "yeah, yeah,
that's gonna take over." And I said, "Well yeah, it may or it may not, but, you know
what? Nobody knows." It's good that to see Apple or sorry, to see Google
behind that totally. But, you know, I'm still - I'm still on the fence about maybe
cuz it does feel unoriginal now. It feels like I can't just say I make
apps anymore because you know, maybe not. So lately, I've been thinking a lot about
the direction of the channel. Is there anything else we could talk about? I mean,
(laughing) why we talk about apps all the time is because that's what I'm
interested in. I'm interested in this market and this ecosystem and yeah,
that's how I make my money is through apps. But if there's anything else you,
guys, would like to talk about going forward and if you can think of a new
slogan because I'm racking my brain trying to think of something, my name is
Eric and or maybe I stop saying that. I mean, you guys have been saying for the
beginning stop saying that because I'm getting tired of hearing it. So maybe. So,
let me know what you, guys, think. Like I said, today's a little bit off
topic. And that's it for today. I'll talk to you, guys, again tomorrow!