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Here's a diff of the document. I'm not sure if it works on mobile: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20200911173859/202009011909... What catches my eye, other than the "person to person experiences" and game streaming changes is the complete removal of the following clause in section 3.1.3(b) "Multiplatform Services": >You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app pu…
They say: > Consider using Xcode to install your app on a device for free or use Ad Hoc distribution available to Apple Developer Program members. Can anyone explain this to me? I have some AppleTV apps I’ve written for myself. I can run them on my AppleTV but I have to reconnect to Xcode every 7 days to continue using them. It’s a pain in the butt. How can I install these apps without a dev account and without havin…
You have a get a paid Developer account. It costs $99/year for the Developer account which gets provisioning profiles that are valid for a year at a time.
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It's not a monopoly. By definition. It's not even close. That's all I am saying. So we should stop with this absurdity of talking about Apple having a monopoly. Apple does not even have majority market share in any of the markets that it participates in.
Depending on who you ask, Apple may or may not have a monopoly on their App Store. I’m of the opinion that you can’t just redefine a “market” to be what you want that would make someone a monopoly. Is Target a monopoly on what it sells in its stores?
But the idea of having "a monopoly on their App Store" is laughable. By that standard, every single company has a monopoly.
It seems to me like Apple has created the appearance of a new exemption without actually changing anything. All of the example transactions in the guidelines (“tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training”), are for real-world services performed by people. In-App Purchases have always been specifically and exclusively intended for digital content. The introduction for the IAP secti…
but they can be done over the app.
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Sure you can avoid their fee. See how many customers you will get if you force them to side load - ask Epic.
Funny, some Apple fanboys claim that if side-loading is allowed the the Apple Store will get empty and you get 10 new App Stores and others like you claim the reverse (I agree with you, allowing side loading and other stores will not empty the main store)
Apple should make a profit for providing the platform. That profit shouldn’t be 30%... as a business operator I wouldn’t mind paying ~3%
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It's their treehouse; they can do what they want. None of these platforms are your friend. Half the Apple devs I know have some kind of stockholm syndrome, though.
Or just maybe they like making money on the mobile platform where people will actually spend money?
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Depending on who you ask, Apple may or may not have a monopoly on their App Store. I’m of the opinion that you can’t just redefine a “market” to be what you want that would make someone a monopoly. Is Target a monopoly on what it sells in its stores?
"Depending on who you ask"? Ok, sure, if you ask people who have no clue what a monopoly is, you can get any answer you want. But the idea of having "a monopoly on their App Store" is laughable. By that standard, every single company has a monopoly.
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> People quickly forget what a tremendous liberation the App Store created for developers. People quickly forget that software was distributed on the web long before the App Store existed. >That's what has caused this flood of software purchases from consumers. No, that was caused by a billion people buying shiny new mobile computers. They would have bought a lot of software in any case, even without an App Store. Ne…
People quickly forget that software was distributed on the web long before the App Store existed. He's talking about when you used to have to pay $50 to $500 for software in a store, but the author was lucky to see $5-$10 of that.
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"You're claiming the nonexistence of something that clearly exists." You have become incredibly insincere in your arguments, or you are seriously misunderstanding this discussion. There are ARMIES of corporate developers making internal apps for corporations around the globe. I, like probably 80% of HN, spent much of our career doing this. That isn't commercial software. It has zero relevance to any App Store, Window…
> You have become incredibly insincere in your arguments, or you are seriously misunderstanding this discussion. Please refrain from personal attacks. As you noted in another comment, I'm primarily a Mac developer, and in my experience, the extent of the third-party Mac software market has often been vastly underestimated. Maybe it's just because people aren't familiar with it. There are of course large numbers of us…
Saying that the market is a wasteland doesn't eliminate the occasional tiny oasis. But compared to the size of the userbase, the market was and remains tiny. People are postulating about some magical greener pastures when the evidence right in front of our eyes, and through the history of the platform, is that it is a fantasy.
Jobs is a good proxy. Through the entirety of my career, internal or corporate solution development jobs have outnumbered commercial, end-user development jobs at least 1000:1 if you aren't directly beside Microsoft, Adobe, or a handful of anti-virus firms. It was, and remains, just a tiny, tiny market. Tiny, micro-boutiques that are a little sliver of marginal prosperity in a desolate wasteland of failure.