AWS has always made the expert “UI” first priority by providing APIs and tooling. The on boarding experience for those who hadn’t transitioned to devops yet seem to be a much lower priority for AWS. I find the opposite to be true for Azure and GCE.

This is a confusing sentiment to me. GCP APIs also come first. I don’t even think the UI is possible without them. Can you name a product where this is not the case?

It’s ironic how folks waffle back and forth on the value of underemployment as political seasons change.

I really like Chalice for serverless Python projects.

LOL. We don’t need 30%. We’ll pay for it through taxes instead.

The cultures here mix too. It’s a preoccupation of a loud minority.

Can’t Epic build their own phone? Are their barriers to entry that Apple has put in place to prevent them from building and selling a phone?

surely you jest. Has samsung been able to get a flagship phone sold without android?

Well the point being that the smartphone market is suffering from poor alternative.

If so many people here seems to believe that neither iOS, nor Android, provide both flexibility and privacy they seek market opportunity might be ripe for new competitors.

The issue is that new competitors have to go against... Apple and Google. Given what happened to Epic (retaliation on Unreal Engine after #FreeFortnite), you can be sure that any competitor which would get a little bit of traction would be hammered into the ground by some Apple/Google money-powered shenanigans.

Samsung made phones before Android existed.

Plenty, Symbian, Bada OS before Android was born, and Tizen is a thing in Asian.

So, Ender’s Game?

What you are suggesting isn’t a reboot or a reinstall, but a rewrite.

Embrace, extend, extinguish?

That said, from a citizens standpoint, if the government is going to only pick one, I can’t imagine it not being AWS. The difference in capability and capacity isn’t within an order of magnitude.