Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
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Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
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#2One of the reasons I never buy apple products. They seem to control everything and cannot support such a company
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#3> All of this just smells of greed. But then again, I guess this is why Apple is a trillion dollar company.
Apple is a 2+ Trillion dollar company. So yes, they are greedy.
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#4> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook.
Apple exec scribbles furiously
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#5> I should be thankful they don’t make me pay a yearly developer fee for making python apps on my Macbook.
Don't give them ideas.
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#6Full PWA support can't come soon enough!
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#7One of the reasons I never buy apple products. They seem to control everything and cannot support such a company
How do you get around it though? Genuinely asking. I guess you try to source your own parts outside of controlling companies and only work on open source OS's and software run by super transparent groups? It just seems like a ton of work for something that might not even be viable. I don't know how I could possibly operate outside of apple, microsoft, google, etc. all of which have massive ethical issues.
To be very clear I'm not saying "it's hopeless why bother you're wrong" etc. I'm just curious what your solution(s) is. I'd love to decouple myself from these groups as much as I can over time.
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#8> All of this just smells of greed.
Apple is a for profit company.
I could turn this around and say that it's greedy to expect a company to offer these tools for free. There's an investment on their end as well.
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#9They do this to discourage users from installing 3rd party apps.
I know it is still greedy, but that's the reasoning behind it.
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#10> Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with this idea when it comes to apps that I plan to distribute. I’m using their servers, and their infrastructure to handle updates, reviews, payments, etc.
Even when you do plan to distribute it it's hard to justify that it's for a good purpose. The review process is so broken and infuriating that I often find myself thinking that _they_ are the ones who should be paying us to go through the stress of trying to publish an update to an app.