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Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

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Post by KirinDave »

statictype wrote: post #341
KirinDave wrote: post #281

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It is not the case that all developers have easy access to abundant income. It is at least as wrong to assume that is true as to assume that they are living hand to mouth.

For those developers, it makes even less sense to pony up for a Macbook and an Apple Developer license and spend all their time on an app that's going into someone else's environment - especially someone who has a history of treating developers on their platform as second-class citizens.

They're told they'll make money. That is not only Apple's rhetoric but the press's.

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Post by draw_down »

vetinari wrote: post #237
st3v3r wrote: post #98

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Not having to enter my credit card info for every mom 'n pop out there that I may or may not trust completely is a HUGE plus.

That's why we have Paypal for...

Haha, so the proposed workaround for how much using the App Store sucks involves freaking PayPal.

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Post by mhurron »

logfromblammo wrote: post #203
mhurron wrote: post #111

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> buy advice/services from an expert with similarly aligned interests. For most people, that's probably the walled gardens that people not on HN don't complain about.

No, the walled garden is the walled garden. The expert consultant is often a relative or favorite blogger or golfing buddy or corporate IT person. How many of us have set up a clueless person's computer? We give them a restricted user account, so they can't install 500 random spyware/adware toolbars. We change the IE/Edge shortcut to open Firefox instead. We install ad-blockers and script-blockers with an overly gene…

And what I'm saying is that for most people that expert is Apple, or Microsoft, or Google depending on what OS/Device we're talking about. And the company running the walled garden is that expert because they have already paid them to be such.

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Post by KirinDave »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #397
KirinDave wrote: post #284

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I think maybe you're operating under a wrong idea here. iOS developers are not customers . They are not treated as customers nor considered as customers. There really is no analogue to the relationship Apple has with iOS developers except perhaps, "Extremely bad contracting relationship." Apple has a lock on the perception that you need to publish on their platform to be serious about mobile dev. As such, they don't…

iOS developers are not customers. $100/year says you're wrong.

I certainly hope people are moving off that abusive platform. But that doesn't make the relationship a customer relationship.

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Post by ahrs »

cyberferret wrote: post #218
vortico wrote: post #15

The OS X platform already has a stupid easy download-and-install process with their .app folders. It's a shame that some users prefer to instead use an alternative distribution method controlled by a centralized party rather than buying software directly from the developer.

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…

> The other tools meant hunting around for installers

`brew cask install $APP`

> ...to find licence file attachments and serials numbers

Store these in 1Password (other password managers are available)

Your point about versioning is a good one though. A lot of sites don't make it easy to find older versions of their software and I don't think package managers like homebrew support versioning (although I could be wrong).

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Post by ogsharkman »

okket wrote: post #446

Update: Apple contacted me and told me they found evidence of App Store review manipulation. This is something I’ve never done. Apple’s decision is final and can’t be appealed.

apple: "we found evidence.."

them: "what exactly?"

apple: "evidence"

them: "..."

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Post by funkysquid »

okket wrote: post #446

Update: Apple contacted me and told me they found evidence of App Store review manipulation. This is something I’ve never done. Apple’s decision is final and can’t be appealed.

That's infuriating - is there some way we can contact the app review team to complain about their "final" decision?

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Post by beamatronic »

funkysquid wrote: post #448
okket wrote: post #446

Update: Apple contacted me and told me they found evidence of App Store review manipulation. This is something I’ve never done. Apple’s decision is final and can’t be appealed.

That's infuriating - is there some way we can contact the app review team to complain about their "final" decision?

AMA Request, someone on the app review team at Apple.

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Post by beamatronic »

aianus wrote: post #424
amelius wrote: post #400

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> If you're actually paying Google money, they have pretty decent support. I wish I could pay for my browser, my email and my search...

You can pay for the email, I do.

You can pay for one of the basic storage plans, that will get your foot in the door, so to speak.
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