A new job needs a new tag, not an overloaded one
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we're asking live item to do a new job. We're asking it to deliver links to content in other apps. and services. Now that that needs a different tag
Episode 69: All Aboard! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:49:52 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Once the live item was finalized, people wanted it to just link out to YouTube or Facebook streams. Dave argues from first principles: a live item is the live equivalent of an item, so it must be self-contained and deliver content to the app. Linking elsewhere is a different job that needs its own semantically appropriate tag. And Apple will never adopt a tag whose content is just a link launching Facebook.
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Episode 69: All Aboard! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:53:01 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
we really, really don't want to start shoving this stuff into something like the link tag. It's just not it's not what it's meant for.
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