Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
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Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#2Interesting that they are creating a separate team just for the EU app store, presumably because the EU is forcing Apple to make some changes. It seems like the investigations in the US, UK, Japan, etc will eventually lead to them being required to make similar changes everywhere.
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#3> There will now be one team for the familiar, Apple-run App Store, and another one to handle alternative app stores in the European Union
Could someone explain why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing? I assume 3rd party companies are running their own servers and everything, is this just for the client-side software development?
Tangential but it's funny how by digging their heels in so tightly Apple's being forced so much. Sideloading (or "installing an app") has hardly been difficult on android (or desktop OSes), I don't think Google needs to set up a new team.
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#4> There will now be one team for the familiar, Apple-run App Store, and another one to handle alternative app stores in the European Union Could someone explain why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing? I assume 3rd party companies are running their own servers and everything, is this just for the client-side software development? Tangential but it's funny how by digging their heels in so tightly…
If there was never infrastructure to handle third party app stores, then such infrastructure would need to be built, and assumptions based on idea that there are no third-party app stores have to be revisited and reworked. They have to then provide hooks for those third party app stores that never existed before (like anything related to launching download of an app, for example.)
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#5Since we're here I have a suggestion to offer. When submitting your mobile app to the App Store there is a checkbox/option somewhere asking you to if you want to distribute the app to Mac as well. DO NOT do that. If enough people do that we'll end up having a Mac app store walled garden powerful enough to extract its 30% tax.
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#6> There will now be one team for the familiar, Apple-run App Store, and another one to handle alternative app stores in the European Union Could someone explain why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing? I assume 3rd party companies are running their own servers and everything, is this just for the client-side software development? Tangential but it's funny how by digging their heels in so tightly…
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Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#7> There will now be one team for the familiar, Apple-run App Store, and another one to handle alternative app stores in the European Union Could someone explain why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing? I assume 3rd party companies are running their own servers and everything, is this just for the client-side software development? Tangential but it's funny how by digging their heels in so tightly…
> why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing
Regulatory compliance on the boundary between doing, "not doing", not "doing", "not" doing and not "not doing".
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#8Interesting that they are creating a separate team just for the EU app store, presumably because the EU is forcing Apple to make some changes. It seems like the investigations in the US, UK, Japan, etc will eventually lead to them being required to make similar changes everywhere.
Geo-fenced app stores could align with geo-fenced networks bounded by GFC-style inspection and filtering of network packets.
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#9Since we're here I have a suggestion to offer. When submitting your mobile app to the App Store there is a checkbox/option somewhere asking you to if you want to distribute the app to Mac as well. DO NOT do that. If enough people do that we'll end up having a Mac app store walled garden powerful enough to extract its 30% tax.
Also, full of badly-ported Catalyst apps.
Re: Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
#10Since we're here I have a suggestion to offer. When submitting your mobile app to the App Store there is a checkbox/option somewhere asking you to if you want to distribute the app to Mac as well. DO NOT do that. If enough people do that we'll end up having a Mac app store walled garden powerful enough to extract its 30% tax.
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