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Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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HeyHugo wrote: post #39
ectospheno wrote: post #13

I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this. I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature. I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make thei…

Yeah high quality guaranteed... https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1480626605370142724

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Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by yepthatsreality »

yawn wrote: post #24
ectospheno wrote: post #13

I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this. I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature. I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make thei…

This sentiment comes up every time people complain about the App Store. If you only want to use Apple's App Store, great--keep using it the same way you've always been using it. Nothing will change for _you_. > What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The failure of people to put themselves in other people's shoes is mind-boggling sometimes. There's a reason why so many people are…

Apple pundits will never be able to do this unless the other pair of shoes were made by Apple.

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by viktorcode »

fsflover wrote: post #29
seafoam wrote: post #15

Not a bad time to start building an App Store for iOS apps. Related : https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/28/us-states-back-fortnite... https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/11/ios-sideloading-questio...

Even a better time to escape the walled garden and develop for mobile Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30364337

You are implying that the walled garden keeps developers in, whereas in reality those walls are for keeping developers out. One does not escape walled garden; one infiltrates it.

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by amelius »

ectospheno wrote: post #13

I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this. I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature. I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make thei…

The problem is the lack of an alternative.

To put it bluntly: you might like your nanny filter but other people might have different preferences.

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by pbronez »

wackget wrote: post #16
ectospheno wrote: post #13

I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this. I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature. I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make thei…

You don't see anything wrong with the obviously highly subjective and demonstratably hypocritical approach that Apple is taking here?

I like the AppStore and want it to be good. Clearer, more consistent app reviews and better developer experience would increase the quality, quantity and variety of apps available to me in the AppStore.

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by cruano »

fartcannon wrote: post #37
ectospheno wrote: post #13

I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this. I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature. I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make thei…

It's a feature for Apple. To extract money from you and the makers of the apps you love. For you? It's a prison. Apple is glad you like it.

Is it a prison that I don't have to install a hundred different launchers ? that I have a reliable way to refund my purchases ? That I don't have to share and trust a random developer with my credit cards ?

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by viktorcode »

napolux wrote: post #35

Every time I read something like this I see it as a clue there's a "secret" cult of AppStore reviewers getting paid by scammer to skip validation and just approve everything they're paid for. Prove me wrong, Tim Cook. If I make a clone app I'm banned. If a bunch of people do the very same app they get approved.

That's not how logic works. The burden of proof that there's a secret cult is on you.

Re: Avoid the Apple App Store

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Post by fartcannon »

cruano wrote: post #48
fartcannon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a feature for Apple. To extract money from you and the makers of the apps you love. For you? It's a prison. Apple is glad you like it.

Is it a prison that I don't have to install a hundred different launchers ? that I have a reliable way to refund my purchases ? That I don't have to share and trust a random developer with my credit cards ?

Yes, because none of that requires the app store.
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