And closing off @appdevcon, @jeffwatkins reminds us that we used to build software to last and asks us where that mentality has gone.

This is also something that I struggle with in our attempts to keep using the latest APIs and dumping all the work on backends that will die in the future.

But then I remind myself I still play a couple of rounds of Carcassonne a week on the app @codingmonkeys created and never updated again since 2020! So it can be done ❤️

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Murat Menzilci gave us great pointers in how to grow our app subscription business. My main takeaways were about performing market research and experimenting with pricing.

Let's see if I'll ever release a paid app of some kind to start using this in practice!
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After giving a workshop on App Intents with him in the audience, it was a treat to then hear @dimsumthinking teach us how to create them from a whole new perspective!

I learned some new things, which I hope to apply to the workshop a next time I'll be teaching about App Intents.

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Crystian Vieyra Cortés gave us a great introduction to iOS Live Activities and Android Live Updates and how to create them.
The main thing I took away from this is that the Android folks have it way easier than the iOS people, though they do deal with fragmentation a lot more 😅

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Lianne Potter gave us a great, thought-provoking keynote on how AI and especially AI companions may be eroding our humanity.

By providing only one-way, frictionless relationships, we don't practice empathy and handling unexpected situations, to the detriment of society with potentially dangerous results.
Let's hope we can find a way to improve this for us and everyone else in the future.
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