Hey when I google for a tutorial, or a brief on something, know what I don't want? A YouTube video. I don't want a long, slow, ad-filled and unedited video full of ummms and uhhhhs explaining something a handful of screen shots and a few hundred words could do.
@Mainebot They do this because YouTube gives them the potential of monetization, and they delude themselves into thinking their stupid little tutorial is going to make them rich. Same goes for all the people who would be making open source but instead make shitty little closed-source iOS and Android apps. One of many ways Google and Apple are ruining computing.
To be fair though, they would have written some pretty shitty open source software. The late 90's were full of mpg123 frontends that needed php or a full MySQL installation in order to let me play a song with a mouse click.
Granted, that's still better than junk apps, but not a lot.
@suetanvil @Mainebot I think that more users is better even if they're cranking out shitty apps, because the tools don't evolve in a vacuum. And it's hard enough to make a mobile app that they might end up doing better stuff than writing PHP frontends for mpg123. But as I keep saying, we need to make it easier to write better apps, and to be less elitist.