Science and Technology : Is Apple About to Accidentally Kill Government as Platform?

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Is Apple About to Accidentally Kill Government as Platform?
An effort by Apple to prevent spam may unintentionally undo years of digital government app development


Jennifer Pahlka
Founder and Executive Director of Code for America. Mom. Keeper of chickens.
Sep 18

... In an effort to reduce the proliferation of spam apps, Apple changed its App Store review guidelines to ban “apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service.” In what appears to be a misguided interpretation of an otherwise reasonable rule, Apple has decided to include white-labeled government apps in this category ...



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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Outgrowing Our Internet: Caught Between the Intranet and the Decentralized Web
By Noah Jessop

... We will see a Cambrian explosion of these cloud-native platforms — and of services that try to be the glue between the tangled mess of systems we have today. [Maybe we can call them “connectivity service platforms?” Or “CSPs” for short?] ...

https://hackernoon.com/outgrowing-o...tranet-and-the-decentralized-web-707c532abbe2

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