Notes from the trenches
Your bank knows you spent $43.17. The merchant knows what you bought. Nothing connects the two, so all of us do the matching by hand. A short proposal that needs agreement, not new technology.
I started building this in 2010. It has been in the Microsoft Store for fourteen years. The version of the story that doesn’t fit in two pages.
Deplatforming, algorithmic suppression, rented audiences, an inbox that never evolved, and ads with no context. A plain accounting of what the product is actually for.
Television used to be free, sponsored by corporations who had a stake in what aired. The trade-offs weren’t all bad. Then paid TV arrived and changed everything.
Visual Studio says UWP is deprecated. Meanwhile, .NET 4.8 and WPF keep running everything, on a billion Windows machines that shipped with it built in. Why the "old" framework refuses to die, and why that's fine.