I can't tell if you're implying some connection between this site and A16Z, but as far as I know there's no connection. Though pmarca used to post here years ago.
Happens for me too. I assume it's an iCloud thing (I vaguely remember the behaviour changing around the time I set up iCloud years ago), but I haven't ever bothered trying to figure out a way to turn it off...
Nobody has yet mentioned how certificates induce and support churn.
In 2025 it's not possible to create an app and release it into the world and have it work for years or decades, as was once the case.
If your "developer certificate" for app stores and ad-hoc distribution is valid for a year, then every year you must pay a "developer program fee" to remain a participant. You need to renew that cert, and you need to recompile a new version within a year. Which means you must maintain a development environment and tools on an ongoing basis for an app that may be feature- and operationally-complete.
All this is completely unnecessary except when it comes to reinforcing hegemony of app-store monopolists.
Yup, I bought and paid for a simple Android game that my kids could play together while we were waiting for thing.
New phone and suddenly I can't install it from Google Play anymore simply because the developer hasn't updated it in awhile. Not that it needs to be updated. I've since repurchased it from itch.io and it runs fine, but that's not unusual for lots of good old software.
A $100 fee makes it costly to burn and churn new accounts. So it's a spam filter.
Forcing developers to stay engages pushes out feature complete software but also pushes out unmaintained software.
An app store is an inherently higher cost distribution method. The operating systems are gratis so development is cross subsidized from app store royalties. They have an incentive to host more paid apps, especially micro-transaction apps that trick kids into spending thousands of dollars off mom's credit card. Of course they've banned or are going to ban alternative channels so you can't choose to self-distribute.
It feels like Volvo is stuck in a sort of a cargo cult like situation. Modern car has to be software defined, so let's define the car by software. Except one of the reddit posts claims Volvo outsourced the development to Infosys. With predictable results...
Not to take away from Kranz, who was an incredible man, but Armstrong was on another plane.
On Apollo 11, he was 100,000 miles from Earth, with bad navigation and the (fly by wire) computer blaring errors into his ear, and had to manually fly to a better area and land with seconds of fuel left.
He wouldn't have been put in that position though if he hadn't come through in a lot of other tricky situations though too. In particular Gemini 8 where the thrusters malfunctioned, and he had to troubleshoot the problem while being spun at 50 rpm.
Armstrong was also quite good at handling the Lunar Module Research Vehicle. A flying machine that was notoriously difficult to fly. Even though he had a close call when he had to eject out it during one training flight.
