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You can have an Apple developer account without paying for it, there’s a free tier, and I think that is allowed for what your parent is referring to.
I have an Apple developer account...
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You couldn't make a call and browse the Internet at the same time on an iPhone. You couldn't copy and paste text on an iPhone. The camera was worse than any contemporary mid range camera phone.
I could make a phone call and browse the interest on my gen1 iPhone. I used ATT as my network. Verizon had the limitation you described, but not all carriers. Copy and paste didn’t work, but it didn’t work on any phone at the time. A few attempted it (eg, win mobile, blackberry) but it really sucked. The camera was quite good and the ability to finally save and share photos and video was revolutionary at the time. I…
This press release contains a lot of trivial errors. > Compatible Scanner (in the header menu ) should be "Compatibility" > not sustainable to run a company and pay salleries "salaries" > it is not provide to provide not "viable"? > we think a paid upgrade is fair for continuously developing, improvements, and support "for continuous development, improvements, and support" > support a product indefinetly for free "in…
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I know a number of apps that sell both on and off the App Store and cripple the latter. Where does it say this is against the rules?
What apps do this? How do they distribute on iOS without the App Store?
The fact that we have to have humans look at our software before we can go to market in 2019 is absurd. I had high hopes for the future as a teen growing up with Napster, Bittorrent, IRC, Trillian/Pidgin, and an explosive WWW. Look at what a pinheaded mess everything has become. Greed destroyed the open and experimental Internet.
> Greed destroyed the open and experimental Internet. Did it? Or did it expand the open and experimental internet to also include profit-making ventures? This meme crops up a lot on HN, but I can't see what's stopping the same internet thriving - there's still self hosting, there's still an open public internet (apart from some newer restrictions around copyright which were inevitable), there's still P2P for those le…
Why not both?
I gave up on App Store as a user. I only use it for system updates an Apple software (eg. Pages) I just use Homebrew. - It has all the software I use not just 50% - If not I can easy ad it. - With bundler, I can set up my new computer super easy - If somebody dislikes the CLI there is Cakebrew
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It might be some future for niche/specific uses, but i'm certain the current model of downloading an installer for applications and games or having a (non-sandboxed) downloader like Steam, Galaxy, Origin, EGS, etc will remain the most common by far. Unless Microsoft tries to force that, but they'll certainly face a lot of resistance and with their apparent coupling of Windows Store with the sandboxing model they coul…
Sandboxing is orthogonal to the store.
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> Because everyone outside US have heard of them. They really haven't. > Should I start digging market shares figures of feature phones before iPhone came to be? At this juncture, yes.
By all means, is 64 million shippments in 2006, the year before iPhone came to the market enough? https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/64-million-smart-phones-shi... Incredible how iOS fanbase tries to rewrite history.
TL;DR: Look at how Nokia's revenue collaspsed post September 2007. Look at how Android and Nokia's decision to go all in on Windows Mobile accelerated it. Then tell me that the iOS fanbase is trying to rewrite history...
I'm sorry but as a user, I trust my relationship with Apple more than I trust random third party devs. As a user, I want Apple to lock down the system and make things hard for developers. As a developer, I empathize with my perspective as a user and build products that take this into account.
I don't see any reason why one would trust Apple more than a random third party dev. To me they are one and the same.