C'mon this is not a concern of the developers making apps that help make this 
ecosystem popular and thus the devices they sell. I understand your point, but 
I can also understand that it is fair for a non Apple employee or non Apple 
stock options holder to question resources allocation.

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> On 26 Jan 2017, at 19:30, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Apple having billions of dollars, and the Swift team as a tiny part of Apple 
> with associated resource allocations, are two completely different things. 
> Please don't be obtuse.
> 
> Best,
> Austin
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Charles Srstka <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Austin Zheng via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't like mailing lists in particular (or, really, at all), but I 
>>> haven't yet seen a good answer to the question: who is going to put in the 
>>> long-term commitment to host and maintain a replacement solution, moderate 
>>> forums, make technical upgrades and backups, and perform all the other 
>>> maintenance and administrative work it takes to properly run a system like 
>>> Discourse, a web forum, or even a bug tracker. I suspect that any such 
>>> solution is going to require an additional commitment since 1). we will no 
>>> longer be able to leverage shared mailing-list infrastructure that is run 
>>> by people outside the Swift team, 2). it's pretty much a given IMO that any 
>>> solution which encourages richer and easier interaction is going to require 
>>> additional community curation.
>> 
>> Are we really arguing that Apple, the most valuable corporation in the 
>> world, does not have the resources to host a web forum?
>> 
>> Charles
>> 
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