Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
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Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
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Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
#2Why is this an issue? Apps built with the old SDK will still work on iOS 14, and you can continue to submit apps built with the old SDK for a while. Nothing says your app _has_ to be built with the new SDK on day 1.
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#3Honestly, this is why we need the Web. But Apple even blocks that since they don’t allow any browser engine apart from Safari, meaning that there is no
- Add to homescreen dialog - Background sync - Proper push notifications - Proper WASM support (a lot of features are missing)
Honestly, at this point, the government should step in, like they did at the end of the last century with Microsoft. Walled gardens hurt innovation a lot, and the App Store in combination with the restricted web on iOS are the ultimate expression of the former.
Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
#4Why is this an issue? Apps built with the old SDK will still work on iOS 14, and you can continue to submit apps built with the old SDK for a while. Nothing says your app _has_ to be built with the new SDK on day 1.
Some apps (Pokemon Go) just crash on launch on 14 without updates.
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#5I fail to see the point, as far as I know Apple has been vocal about iOS since WWDC and typically releases the OS relatively quick after events. The beta's been out and available for every iOS developer for months in order to prepare for this.
There's enough to rib on Apple on, but this really doesn't seem like one?
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#6Apple greatest asset is the accessibility to a large market. In return to the loyalty of the clients they do an excellent work in validating apps for isolation, privacy and vetting. Technology is not magic and bugs exist, so Apple chose this methodology for their store.
If companies are able to hijack this process by uploading assets it could be easy to exploit.
We are talking about a personal phone not a remote computer. Imagine if hackers got free reign in the private information of key political figures ?
I choose privacy thank you very much.
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#7Why are people constantly personifying corporations? All you're going to end up with is a sociopath as that's what large companies are when you try to do that.
Apple isn't a single person with evil intentions that thought: "let's make it very hard to work with this stuff", even if it might seem that way. It's far more likely that:
- The alternative was worse
- An internal policy or rule had unforeseen side-effects in planning or releasing
- The team doing the work on the release and the team doing relations aren't the same team and didn't communicate properly
- A deadline was set and because it was only met just barely you get an odd release schedule
Does that mean that this release is a fun planned schedule? No. But it doesn't mean the thousands of people working there are combined into one big person that wants to do bad things to you.
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#8Web Web web, fuck native apps.
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#9I thought App developers would be testing against the beta version? I don't really understand the problem. There's public beta's, it's out of beta, and will go to the public tomorrow, apps will continue to work.
Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?
#10Apple greatest asset is the accessibility to a large market. In return to the loyalty of the clients they do an excellent work in validating apps for isolation, privacy and vetting. Technology is not magic and bugs exist, so Apple chose this methodology for their store. If companies are able to hijack this process by uploading assets it could be easy to exploit. We are talking about a personal phone not a remote comp…
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