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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

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Re: Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

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Post by brazzledazzle »

redial wrote: post #307
izacus wrote: post #154

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Well, I'm afraid you kinda missed my larger point due to a nitpick into an example. Please replace it with something else appropriate (physical keyboard? USB-C or microUSB port? whatever really) and argue about that :/

Then you should have mention that and not use your weak arguments to try to prove your point. I have an iPhone and I don't use HomeKit, AppleTV, CarPlay or the iTunes Store, and use Whatsapp instead of iMessage. And I'm afraid I can't see how replacing the headphone jack with a physical keyboard would make your argument better. If you want to charge your phone using microUSB there are hundreds of options.

Please be nice or at least civil.

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Post by joemi »

choicewords wrote: post #269
joemi wrote: post #240

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That's not quite right. I've been selling on Amazon for 6+ years and have lost selling privileges a few times (every time due to an issue with our order management software). Sometimes dealing with it was as you described. But I can state factually that they don't always indicate that you're about to be shut down, nor do they always make it remotely easy to get back on or even figure out why you were shut down. For i…

measured on performance/risk on the Seller Performance and no one wanted to take a chance on you? i'm just guessing here.

Fair to guess, but I doubt that's it. The store I work for has been selling on there for almost a decade (it was selling since before I was hired), steadily, with very high customer feedback.

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Post by cyberferret »

vetinari wrote: post #235
cyberferret wrote: post #218

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I used to dislike purchasing from the Mac App Store too, so when I got my new iMac a few months ago I decided against migrating all the unused junk from my old MacBook and would instead start with a fresh OS X install.... great idea, right up until I realised that I didn't have all the install files for dozens of audio tools I use. The App Store ones were a simple matter of logging in with my Apple account and reinst…

And this is a reason, why I take care in archiving installers, license keys, serials, etc for every application I use. Learned my lesson some 25 years ago, when there wasn't Internet to try to find the installer and email archive to hunt for licenses.

Good point - and I do have a registry of installers and serial numbers for my crucial development software. However, I have literally hundreds of audio plugins and utilities that are tedious to track. End of the day, it is an admin cost to maintain such an archive - and some days I think it is far easier to outsource that archival maintenance and recording to a third party... such as an App Store... :)

NB: A lot of my audio software is licenced via an iLok device. Whilst I HATED the idea of a 'dongle' like an iLok before, this hardware upgrade has made me appreciate the fact that I didn't have to worry about re-licencing all of my audio production software the used the iLok either.

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Post by jorgecastillo »

brianwawok wrote: post #283
fattire wrote: post #253

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You have other means to distribute your app w/Android, including self-distribution. It's an uphill climb to be sure, but there are apps who do that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS doesn't offer that opportunity as sideloading and non-Apple markets are not possible unless you jailbreak your device

Can you name a single Android app that has even made 100k distributed via side loading? I can't.

Firefox for Android & Yandex.Mail on Yandex.Store. Here you go three examples.

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Post by kalleboo »

mikestew wrote: post #158
maxerickson wrote: post #19

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I get a headache every time I look at an app store. Google Play is full of crap, Apple's app store has plenty of low value apps, the Windows 10 App store sucks, etc, etc, etc. They've improved user security, but the amount of garbage to sift through is terrible.

They've improved user security, but the amount of garbage to sift through is terrible. From my POV, it's like complaining that the seat belt left a bruise after an automotive collision; IOW, missing the bigger picture. I can sort my own garbage, thanks (and that's not to say that you're not right about the quality in app stores). It's easy, and if I screw it up then I've just got a garbage binary taking up space that…

You can have sandboxing without an App Store (macOS supports it)

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

RIMR wrote: post #152
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #144

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Why do some people always make this kind of "argument "?! Why can't you keep it focused on Apple when it's Apples actions in question? Saying something about some other company does not in any way justify the questionable actions.

Because, we must always speak of Apple and Google in binaries, as everything is always one or the other. Chocolate and Vanila, Male and Female, Apple and Google. All these things are binary, and are always inversely related to one another. /s

Dimensions and directions are useful for describing stuff, though

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Post by tempestn »

habitue wrote: post #303
paulddraper wrote: post #290

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I can't speak for you, but my family needs to eat. Can I choose my opportunities? To some extent.

Yes of course, your family needs to eat and you need to eat. If you're most concerned with just making enough money to eat, you have a huge number of jobs available. If your app's failure vs. success is the difference between eating and not eating, you've made that decision consciously, knowing that you (necessarily) have the skills to get other jobs without such dire consequences. The point I was making is that this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcYngSL8WU#t=1m38s

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Post by jaimex2 »

brianwawok wrote: post #283
fattire wrote: post #253

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You have other means to distribute your app w/Android, including self-distribution. It's an uphill climb to be sure, but there are apps who do that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS doesn't offer that opportunity as sideloading and non-Apple markets are not possible unless you jailbreak your device

Can you name a single Android app that has even made 100k distributed via side loading? I can't.

There are tons! XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

coldtea wrote: post #42
Sidnicious wrote: post #24

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No standard update mechanism, no standard uninstall mechanism, and going from "I have this .dmg/.zip file in my downloads folder" to "I'm running this app from my Applications folder and don't have any leftovers in my downloads folder" is several non-obvious steps. .app bundles are great, just not a complete solution.

> No standard update mechanism Sparkle is the de-facto standard used by almost all apps. > no standard uninstall mechanism Deleting the .app file would do that for most apps. The config files might be handy to keep around if you re-install (and are inert anyway), else it's pretty easy to remove those too. It would be nice for the OS to be able to track "all files installed by an app" though in case those are installe…

Config files aren't inert and can be terribly problematic if you're reinstalling to fix broken config files. Case in point updating graphics card in linux, those random nodejs apps that leave broken symlinks everywhere, and the windows registry
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