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OS X and iOS development both require Apple hardware anyways, so shouldn't you have that as a developer?
I got around this by deving on virtual machine.
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Not only are they not a monopoly, Apple doesn't even have the highest market share in the mobile space. (It's Samsung.)
Where? [0] says that Apple has 41% to Samsung's 21% in the United States. [0] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
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Invalid analogy, since it's Apple's house, not his. Nobody forced him to write software for Apple's platform and nobody forced him to agree to the developer agreement Apple requires. He did it of his own free will.
Except that this is not a single persons house, but a mega corporation with monetary power of states. It's not "a person throwing you out of his house", it's "your governor forcing you to leave your state because you dared critcize him". Power makes a difference.
Another analogy: it's like someone having a big "please wipe your shoes" sign on their front door, and you walk in with muddy boots and track mud everywhere. They'd be entitled to be annoyed and ask you to leave because you broke the terms of their invitation.
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Goodwill. Just because you're the big gorilla and can act as such with impunity doesn't mean you ought to constantly remind people of that. One developer doesn't matter in the grand scheme, but every time they get to the front page of HN with a story like this it chips away at Apple's (or Google's, or whoever's) reputation. Collectively that does have value.
Apple has tons of goodwill with their users, and that's what matters. That's who pays the bills, and that's who funds the App Store. From the beginning Apple has had a very standoff-ish relationship with their developers. Their rules are clear from the outset: Play by them, or don't publish on our platform. To be honest I think developers occasionally still got entirely too much leeway to break their guidelines and g…
I just want to add that I'm an Apple user and developer and I agree with you.
There have been past stories right here, when HN flip-flopped between taking a suspended developer's side and then Apple's after it turned out that the dev was not being fully honest. Lemme dig that link up.
I love Rambo (the dev) and the information he provides but he clearly violated the NDA. I wonder how the pitchforkers here would handle it if someone violated their company's NDA.
I'm also glad that big companies are under constant scrutiny so they can't bully smaller devs who don't have a voice as loud as Rambo's. In this case though, I don't think Rambo was bullied.
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> every time they get to the front page of HN with a story like this it chips away at Apple's (or Google's, or whoever's) reputation I know we who post here on HN would like to believe this is true, but I have seen no evidence that it actually is.
I started as a huge Google fan. I am not anymore. To be honest though they might have put in the biggest effort themselves when it comes to making sure everyone dislike them.
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I am "just another developer" who has probably violated the NDA as well. Reverse engineering beta OSes and distributing information about it totally OK, the problem is when you take screenshots.
Have you published information about undisclosed features in the press? Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not?
Define "press".
> Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not?
Because that's what the license agreement says. Information about prerelease software is OK to discuss, sharing screenshots is not.
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They can. But why should they? What's the benefit?
Goodwill. Just because you're the big gorilla and can act as such with impunity doesn't mean you ought to constantly remind people of that. One developer doesn't matter in the grand scheme, but every time they get to the front page of HN with a story like this it chips away at Apple's (or Google's, or whoever's) reputation. Collectively that does have value.
Sure, some explanations from Apple would be ideal, but I think fuzzyZeus makes a good realpolitik argument for why that doesn't happen--and didn't deserve to get downvoted into oblivion for it.
And speaking of explanations, why doesn't the OP give us more explanations? The OP details all the delays and non-comm of Apple without even mentioning his own activities--especially if they were as serious as alleged. If he did non-standard or gray-area activities, you'd think he'd explain them and how they should be considered legit. The fact that he does not mention them at all is very detrimental to his case, and will likely cause a Streisand effect.
Yes, apps and devs are still critical to the iOS ecosystem, but fuzzyZeus is right that there is too much supply putting the balance of power on Apple's side.
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Yes they have. It is routine for people who breaks the terms and conditions to have their account revoked.
Not for taking screenshots of developer betas.
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Have you published information about undisclosed features in the press? Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not?
> Have you published information about undisclosed features in the press? Define "press". > Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not? Because that's what the license agreement says. Information about prerelease software is OK to discuss, sharing screenshots is not.
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Not for taking screenshots of developer betas.
That's not all of what he did, though. He'd data mine it like crazy, and would get into areas he really shouldn't have been in (Apple Arcade before launch, etc). The fact that this is all Apple did to him (killing his developer account) is pretty amazing.