<story><title>The Art of the Possible</title><url>https://hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-possible</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Amorymeltzer</author><text>Just a note on the final line:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Apple needs to decide if it wants to be “right,” or if it wants to be happy.&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; Siracusa is referencing a line from The Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy, spoken by Slartibartfast as part of an exchange with Arthur Dent:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d far rather be happy than right any day.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;And are you?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;No, that&amp;#x27;s where it all falls down, of course.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Pity,&amp;quot; said Arthur with sympathy. &amp;quot;It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I love the book, but that particular line has stuck with me for quite a while.  I try to use it as a guide whenever I start to lean toward being right over happiness.  Works for relationships, code reviews, whatever you like.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Art of the Possible</title><url>https://hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-possible</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hrktb</author><text>Very well put, as usual. The most important part for me is how both developers and users are unhappy with the current rules.&lt;p&gt;Hey is the latest flavor of the controversy, but from the start I’m bitter I can’t buy Amazon ebooks directly from the amazon app. And it’s not like these rule give me more security, provide for the stability of the platform, or help me in any indirect ways. The kindle app still makes no revenue for Apple either way.&lt;p&gt;Everyone loses, and that doesn’t help Apple’s image as it’s slowly crawling out of the laptop keyboard fiasco and this string of pretty flaky macos versions.</text></comment>