[kimsant]

This year I build qoob, an app to interact with an IOT electric scooter parking. In August I had the MVP ready, we build 2 prototypes and could save and charge scooters of all voltages in office halls.

The project is not my main job, so time is precious.

I was asked to create a new functionality: Allow companies to buy and borrow e-scooters between company employees.

But what happened is that I had to implement Apple Login, since FB and Google did work already.

Who should I take care off? Apple or the customer/users? Is it optimal to prioritize the Apple Login, that nobody requested?

I don't care about monopoly persse, I'm concerned because it doesn't let me be user-centric, consumer-centric.

(and I can't leave apple, because I can't leave my users)

[lmm]

> (and I can't leave apple, because I can't leave my users)

You have to. That's the only thing that will ever stop Apple doing this, if devs leave and users leave. Otherwise why would they care?

[kimsant]

Apple wins before I can breath. If I don't say Android/IOs app, I'm off the market for a IOT B2B product. Would be a beautiful Harakiri but totally useless

[cstejerean]

So you implemented Apple Login and none of your users use it?

[Osiris]

I read the comment as "I have limited time and must be wise about what I spend it on. Apple is forcing me to spend time on something I don't want to as other things are more important".

Apple is controlling his product roadmap.

Whether people use it or not is not the point. It's the it's the opportunity cost of having built something else that would have been MORE impactful to customers.

[kimsant]

I implemented Apple Login.

Took me about 2 months, since I do it on weekends, and had to move the deployment of the back-end microservices to a ci/cd docker instance since .so files of openssl can't be compiled in mac and used in linux ( i use Aws lambdas). And of course, I have a MAC because HOW else I would BUILd and Archive my ApPLE XCOdE IOS app haahah? In my prev company we had a Mac machine plugged with SSh to Jenkins!!! GOd! A company that has 700milion visitors A MONtH is forced to do this!

You see, the problem is they force my choices All the time, and by forcing it I have to make bad decisions.

[kimsant]

if anyone is curious: https://en.qoobers.com/