Platform trust is eroding: Apple's hidden classifier, GitHub's outages
'Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier' (50403097) drew immediate anger. People said they'd be furious if their Mac does this, one is staying on Sequoia, one is considering Linux for the next laptop, and another floated a class action. On GitHub, 'GitHub's new Git storage architecture' (50397099) got a lukewarm response. Users said they hit a bunch of 500s on push this week, that it's 'hard to defend GitHub with all the recent outages', and that the post reads as future planning rather than a fix for now.
The restaurant delivery payment-skimming campaign (50397017) adds a smaller version of the same worry. Commenters blamed Google AdSense for letting scam ads through, and one said abuse and moderation problems are what make a federated delivery network impossible.
The pattern: the platforms builders depend on are being judged on transparency and reliability, not features. Both are failing in public.
So what?
Any single-vendor dependency is a risk you should price in. Keep a push path off GitHub that works, and avoid shipping features that depend on opaque on-device behavior you can't explain to customers. If you hide something from users, assume someone will find it and write the post.