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Re: Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Post by NetMageSCW » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

Marsymars wrote: post #20

MrZander wrote: post #16

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> Whatever you’re shipping to a phone isn’t for professionals anyway. That's a bold statement. I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS.

> I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS. I mean, you could outsource the mobile app building. My company does basically our entire B2B stack and infrastructure in-house except for the mobile apps.

That just indicates you don’t really care about your customers mobile experience and they will notice eventually.

Re: Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Post by Velocifyer » Thu, May 07, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

MrZander wrote: post #16

bellowsgulch wrote: post #10

At some point in life, you realize that some discussions, some arguments, are entirely wastes of energy and entire premises can be thrown away with simpler discussions and arguments. To this one, I say, who cares? Don’t publish on platforms where you can’t control your own intellectual property. Why use the App Store at all? It only serves to benefit Apple, and the vast majority of developers are simply making $100/y…

> Whatever you’re shipping to a phone isn’t for professionals anyway. That's a bold statement. I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS.

Have you tried using a web app? A well made PWA app can work well, and most iPhone users don't care about memory or lag.

Re: Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Post by Marsymars » Thu, May 07, 2026, 7:09 PM UTC

NetMageSCW wrote: post #41

Marsymars wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hate developing for iPhone, but I don't have a choice because 85% of the users of our B2B app are on iOS. I mean, you could outsource the mobile app building. My company does basically our entire B2B stack and infrastructure in-house except for the mobile apps.

That just indicates you don’t really care about your customers mobile experience and they will notice eventually.

Maybe, but we pay notably more to outsource than we were previously paying for in-house dev; it works better at our scale - our client apps probably merit like 1 FTE developer, and it's easier to get appropriate expertise for mobile app development from a third party that specializes in that rather than trying to maintain it in-house, or by spreading the pain of Apple provisioning profiles and app store review, etc. among a team of non-mobile devs.

Re: Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Post by antiframe » Sat, May 09, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

NetMageSCW wrote: post #40

antiframe wrote: post #26

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The people who opt into walled gardens don't want to create, they want to consume. Those who create want unfettered access.

Strange that the Apple walked garden creates more apps than the “free” Android world than. Plenty of creators in the walled garden.

It's interesting how different people's circle are. I don't know a single human that wrote any app for their phone on iOS. I know several that did it for Android and other phones.

I am not talking about businesses selling apps to end users for gain, I am talking about people tinkering, making one off digital art projects, etc. The tinkerers I know want to just side load their apps and that's easier in less walled gardens.