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Re:Dear Apple by usaphp on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:01PM (#13680925)
It's an unrealistic advice. It's easy to say it when your income is not dependent on these apps. But if you have an app in a marketplace that pays your bills, you can't afford to risk it just because you don't like dev tools...
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Re:Dear Apple by dwightgunning on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:19PM (#13681037)
It's only unrealistic if you aren't willing to adapt to changing market conditions.
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Re:Dear Apple by cwyers on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:31PM (#13681103)
This may not be what HN readers want to hear, but users, not developers, have the primary influence over what the market is.
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Re:Dear Apple by jes5199 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:12PM (#13681328)
is the market still apps? I don't work on mobile, so I guess I wouldn't know, but my feeling was that people install way fewer apps than they used to
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Re:Dear Apple by AsyncAwait on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:44PM (#13682189)
As a mobile developer, I can confirm this. They mostly just install all their social networks and a couple of games, but there's still demand from businesses who want their own apps.
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Re:Dear Apple by orbitur on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:23PM (#13681059)
But the market conditions are what's holding us in place.
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