Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
by pier25 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:55PM
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> Apple has no love nor concern for their developers anymore
Because Apple knows it doesn't need to attract developers to iOS. They will come no matter what because that's where the mobile market is.
On macOS it's different. There are very few macOS exclusive developers so most of the popular apps are either cross platform (Office, Photoshop, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox, Maya, Cubase, Cinema4D, Resolve, etc) or are from Apple. In both cases the Apple dev experience is irrelevant. There are plenty of boutique devs making small products exclusively for macOS (eg: Panic, Bjango, Bohemian) but these are a drop in the ocean. Apple knows this which is why it's making Catalyst to attract iOS devs to macOS. AFAIK the only big developer making macOS exclusive products is Apple itself.
Because Apple knows it doesn't need to attract developers to iOS. They will come no matter what because that's where the mobile market is.
On macOS it's different. There are very few macOS exclusive developers so most of the popular apps are either cross platform (Office, Photoshop, Sublime Text, Chrome, Firefox, Maya, Cubase, Cinema4D, Resolve, etc) or are from Apple. In both cases the Apple dev experience is irrelevant. There are plenty of boutique devs making small products exclusively for macOS (eg: Panic, Bjango, Bohemian) but these are a drop in the ocean. Apple knows this which is why it's making Catalyst to attract iOS devs to macOS. AFAIK the only big developer making macOS exclusive products is Apple itself.