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  • Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs

    Sadly, the docs, I’ve worked with (openstack and ansible) frequently, don’t do this. They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version. This means I have to find the equivalent page again, from the integrated search usually.

    And yes, a lot can change between versions. New features can get added that solve your problems or older stuff can get removed.






  • No, it is lock in. If apple allowed for multiple app stores other than their own, then users could pay for an app on one app store, and then not have to pay again on another, potentially even on non-apple devices.

    I encountered this when I first purchased minecraft bedrock edition on the amazon kindle. Rather than repurchasing it on the google play store when on a non-amazon, I simply tracked down the Amazon app store for non-amazon devices, and redownloaded it from there. No lock in to Amazon or other android devices, both ways.

    Now, the Apple app store would still probably not work on androids… but now they would actually have to compete for users on the app store, by offering something potentially better than transferable purchases across ecosystems.

    I suspect the upcoming Epic store for iOS and android may be like that… pay for a game/app on one OS, get it available for all platforms where you have the Epic store. But the only reason the Epic store is even coming to iOS is because Apple has been forced to open up their ecosystem.


  • Provision Management Software

    Openstack skyline/horizon

    Compute

    Openstack nova

    And so on. Openstack is also many, many components, that can be pieced together for your own cloud computing platform.

    Although it won’t have the sheer number of services AWS has, many of them are redundant.

    The core services I expect to see done first: compute, networking, storage (+ image storage), and a web UI/API

    Next: S3 storage, Kubernetes as a service, and then either Databases as a service or containers as a service.

    But you are right, many of the services that AWS offers are highly specialized (robotics, space communication), and people get locked in, and I don’t really expect to see those.