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Just wanted to chime in on this: it doesn’t matter how far you drag it to the right, but how “deep” you press: after pressing once, give it another, deeper press and the app switcher will appear.


> Of course Mac support request ratios will vary by game due to architecture and player base, but there’s little question that they’re higher in general, ...

Why? What is the nature of these support requests? Are they specific to your game? Could it be because your game was not properly made for macOS to begin with?


In the minds of Apple, anything not programmed solely for the Mac is 'not properly made for macOS'. It's shades of "you're holding it wrong" again.


They might need an Apple-like "courage" moment, and replace Google with DuckDuckGo or Startpage as their default search service.

Come to think of it, I would expect the same move from Apple as well, on Safari.


That would kill their primary revenue source. I agree, it needs to be done. Hopefully the new Mozilla CEO will figure out a way to do it.


Safari/DDG user here. Presumably Firefox could load the search results into a container that throws away all the cookies after the search is done. Doesn’t it work like that for FB?

Presumably, the real problem is that this would be against Google’s terms of the agreement between google and. moz, but - at least technically - there is no reason to throw away access to google if that’s seen to be a desirable default.

Of course - I’m guessing that google is gonna add its own tracking variables to URLs, so any search result returned by google really is going to be suspect regardless of what we do.


It is.


> I also started making YouTube videos as I find the video format is often superior to just text and words.

No. A thousand times no.



And how much does it cost to build and maintain your own domain, storage, delivery/updates infrastructure and billing system? Oh, and how about marketing for your app?


The app stores market your app for you? Ha!


Apple’s ‘App of the Day’ featuring boosts downloads by 1747%, games by 792%[1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/apples-app-of-the-day-feat...


Sure getting featured helps, just like if a fashion designer has a celebrity photographed in their clothes, they will probably see a temporary bump in sales.

Getting featured on the App Store is one time, possibly incredibly beneficial, event, but it is not a marketing plan.


Ask developers how much difference being made a featured app makes to sales. Apple recently radically redesigned the App Store so that it could more effectively promote apps.


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