Indie devs updated 100,000 apps in days while Google and Apple lag on their own apps
jdluk87 · x · 2026-11-16
The author notes that within days of the latest platform release, roughly 100,000 optimized apps were already available — 99% of them from indie developers and small companies — while giants like Google take weeks or months to update their own Calendar and Mail clients. Screenshots highlight Flightly's polished "Passport" flight-stats page (89 flights, 210,134 miles, 42 airports) and Apple's own Sports app ironically showing "No Events Today."
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