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These giant walled gardens should seriously be regulated. One company should not have complete control over an entire industry like this.
Apple doesn't even have 50% of market share in any country, how are they in "complete control" of anything?
Nobody ever claims they get more revenue on android than IOS
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> the keyboard shortcuts are entirely unintuitive IMO, Xcode has the most sane shortcuts of any IDE I have ever used. > Apple's store literally doesn't accept screenshots generated by its own simulator But…you can? I have a UI test that generates screenshots in the simulator and I upload those.
>But…you can? I have a UI test that generates screenshots in the simulator and I upload those. It complained about the alpha channel, and I needed to open (in GIMP) all of the screenshots created by the Xcode simulator in order to strip it out. I'm not making this up, countless other developers have wasted time on this sort of nonsense: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25681869/images-cant-con...
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Why are you devving for Apple platforms if you hate them so much?
Because any developer would be stupid not to tap into Apple's iSlave consumer-base.
"I just can't turn down the market so I'm simply forced to develop for platforms I loathe (all the way to my checking account)," on the other hand... yeah, that's a touch more obvious.
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Said it better than I could've – there are some pretty obvious reasons why Rambo's account could've been suspended, the clear violation of NDAs being the main one, with him publishing information about unreleased products. I'm honestly kind of surprised they let him keep his Developer account all this time. My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process. It's this kind of stu…
This 100%. Government needs to get involved. Apple is clearly using its monopolistic power as shield against any kind of accountability. Devs have absolutely no recourse against this monopoly.
I don't see how this would improve the situation, and it would most likely make it worse.
> Devs have absolutely no recourse against this monopoly.
Devs have no right to demand that Apple let them into their ecosystem. It belongs to Apple. The ultimate dev recourse is not to go complaining to the government but to build their own ecosystem that out-competes Apple's. Good luck.
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> My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process. This is indeed the core of the problem. If Apple provided a clear citation, e.g. “the following protected information was shared under your name at this URL on this date, which violates section xyz of your developer agreement,” it would still be unfortunate, but it would be miles ahead of Apple’s maddening “for more informatio…
This is impossible at scale and a waste of a companies' time. Apple doesn't care if your account is reinstated. Odds are (just like the author here) you know exactly why your account is suspended. If you honestly don't, then you didn't do your due diligence in signing up. And, even if they cited whatever part of whatever agreement, it would just be onto the next excuse. It's a bottomless pit of arguing that solves no…
This is by no means universal.
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Not only are they not a monopoly, Apple doesn't even have the highest market share in the mobile space. (It's Samsung.)
I see. So Apple watches, iPads, and iPhones & other devices owning at least half the US market isn't a monopoly whatsoever? When does one qualify to become a monopoly? Must they own 90% of the market to be considered one? I wonder what would happen if they kicked Uber of the platform.
I would expect that either Uber would find a way for its iPhone users to side-load their app, or Uber would calmly point out to Apple how many users they were likely to lose.
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>But…you can? I have a UI test that generates screenshots in the simulator and I upload those. It complained about the alpha channel, and I needed to open (in GIMP) all of the screenshots created by the Xcode simulator in order to strip it out. I'm not making this up, countless other developers have wasted time on this sort of nonsense: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25681869/images-cant-con...
I have never gotten a screenshot from the simulator that contains an alpha channel…
https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/9fd7qu/taki...
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Apple rakes 30 cents off of every dollar spent In the App Store. Their end totals billions of dollars a month. They absolutely could do this “at scale”.
Actually you're right, it is possible, but it's also not remotely worth it. I've been working with online communities for decades, and every person who hasn't done so has wanted to provide reasons, to provide explanations, and I will tell you in exactly every single interaction I've had when someone's account on whatever platform had to be terminated, that all they do is argue. I didn't do that. It wasn't that bad. B…
Get back to us with outcomes.
It feels like I'm living in a bizarre world where this event is being parsed by so many people as "Apple can't lock any account they want, force them to apologize!", when what people should be saying is "Wow, monolithic software pipelines controlled by a corporation sure are bad and this is just one of many entirely predictable consequences"
It’s weird to see this whole thread jumping to Apple’s defense because “he broke the rules.” Feels hilariously similar to the human centipede episode of South Park. The fact that this company can rip away his work and livelihood because he’s clever enough to find clues in their betas is crazy. Everyone here acting like it’s ok because the world’s richest company has a team of lawyers building the justification are ev…