Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by jedberg on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:22PM
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I suspect you are a tiny minority though and that the cut the app store takes doesn't make up for losing a few folks like yourself.
However, I have no data to back up that claim, so I could very well be wrong.
I personally don't feel like you do because I use burner cards and emails to solve the hacking and spamming problems, and apps still have to be sandboxed unless you turn off that safeguard explicitly for the app.
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by tamasnet on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:32PM
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Parent might be a tiny minority, but if so I'm right there with him.
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by kalleboo on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:29PM
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> give my credit card to a random website that will probably get hacked in the next 12 months
Pretty much everyone takes PayPal which shields you from this
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by dcosson on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:05AM
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Or uses stripe which hides your real card number from the merchant. The annoyance of adding a card is one thing but fear of an app developer getting hacked and exposing your card doesn't strike me as a very strong reason.
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by eonw on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:29PM
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they shouldnt be storing it anyways. thats not PCI compliant.
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by skaplun on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:09AM
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Dev logic, not how most of us are thinking
Re:What happens when you dump the App Store?
by kalleboo on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:31AM
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As an app developer, most users also seem to think developers are to blame for issues like the App Store failing to download apps, double-billing etc, so I don't think buying though Apple makes much of a difference there.
For many apps where I wouldn't mind spending $10 to $20 in the App Store, I am probably not going to deal with all of the above to buy it directly from the developer.