Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy - (37signals)
It’s hard to build a business on a platform where you feel like you cannot trust the men in power. If they can take down Adobe a few days before the launch of their flagship product, what hope do smaller players hold?
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This is a presentation from 2019-01-21.
Summary
- We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
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Introduction
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