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> They simply have no right to quash free speech. They haven't quashed free speech. They've built a consequence to speech into their developer agreement, as an exercise of their freedom of association. If you're in a bar and you trashtalk the waitstaff to their faces, it's fully within their rights to eject you. You're free to stand on the sidewalk outside of the bar and continue to exercise your rights. Just as OP i…
That's a decent analogy and I'm surprised you're getting voted down.
I'm not surprised one bit. I generally don't talk about downvoting, but it's pertinent to the topic of free speech and consequences for speaking.
There's a common theme in "free speech" advocacy -- folks assert that free speech must not have any consequences. Addressing that misconception with facts about the US legal system and precedent frequently results in downvotes. Which is rather ironic -- downvoting is a consequence that can result in "censorship." But karma comes and goes with the popularity of my opinions; I'm not bothered.
Ah the joys of being subjected to a dictator's whim. Apple can do as it wants when it wants for any reason it wants to regarding that app you may have poured a year of your life into. Our profitable SaaS web app has 1000s of paying users and those apps also run very well on mobile safari. We made a decision a long time ago as a company never to invest in iOS because of Apple's dictator like policies. We may develop a…
Totally agree. MacOS dev is also going down the hill considering all the uncertainity about developing for the platform (deprecations, transitions to new SDKs and language, etc). For example it would seem ObjC and Cocoa will be abandoned one day. When? In 2 years? 5 years? When will OpenGL not be distributed with macOS? It would seem the safe bet is switching to SwiftUI for macOS but as of today you lose support for…
Since day one of the app store, there has been a persistent stream of complaints of terrible customer service to developers. Apps being rejected for reasons nobody can figure out, app reviews taking an egregiously long time, account lockouts like this. On the one hand, when a developer account is only $99/yr and there is a strong incentive for some developers to try to get away with things, what choice do you have bu…
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Totally agree. MacOS dev is also going down the hill considering all the uncertainity about developing for the platform (deprecations, transitions to new SDKs and language, etc). For example it would seem ObjC and Cocoa will be abandoned one day. When? In 2 years? 5 years? When will OpenGL not be distributed with macOS? It would seem the safe bet is switching to SwiftUI for macOS but as of today you lose support for…
Considering how long it took to remove Carbon, I wouldn't expect Cocoa to go away any time within the next decade.
Nobody knows.
There is no point in saying "it's not fair, they locked me out...", they OWN the platform, they can do whatever they want with it.
There is also no point is trying to work around it, hackintosh, vm, whatever, I did it and it's just pain.
If you don't agree with how Apple does things (I don't), then walk away. It took me a long time, but I am now fully free of the Apple ecosystem and I develop for other platforms.
What I am saying is that we cannot have it all, we cannot have a well funded platform, with marketing done for us, distribution done for us... and be fully free (as in freedom).
This is why it is important to think things properly when using proprietary technologies, they are more polished, have support, but have a freedom cost.
We should not complain about google, apple... closing accounts, we should create new open alternatives, for everything. Of course it's not easy, it's hard, way harder than complaining. For this, they are multiple tools, technical ones (writing open source stuff), but also political and legal ones (like GPL).
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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.
> Government needs to get involved. 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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Apple doesn't even have 50% of market share in any country, how are they in "complete control" of anything?
They are in complete control of the programs that you can install on your iphone, and take 30% of all transactions that occur through that marketplace. Are you a lawyer for apple?
When did being able to access / sell to a private marketplace become an entitlement of public accommodation?
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of this then by all means go ahead and assert this. I personally don't believe the iPhone App Store (or any other app store) yet rises to the level of a forum of open public access and certain pricing in the name of public good.
You are perfectly free to develop apps and sell them elsewhere.