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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by belltaco on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:33PM (#21439067)
It's funny how the general consensus on here is against Microsoft's abuse of private APIs in Windows to help Word and DOS against WordPerfect and DrDOS, 20+ years ago. But Apple doing it right now in a much worse way is considered acceptable and defendable.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by drenvuk on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:37PM (#21439081)
I don't think anyone here considers Apple's abuse of private APIs vs developers an ok thing. I will never subject myself to their app store if I can help it.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by Mirioron on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:37AM (#21439628)
I think it's more a case of people just being unaware. They might have an idea that this is going on, but because they've never run into it it's not something that's a priority. I'd even wager that the vast majority of non-Americans here don't use Apple hardware.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:48AM (#21439471)
I'm fairly sure a number of App Store developers browse Hacker News.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by DonHopkins on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:43AM (#21439897)
Many of us frequently subject ourselves to all kinds of abuse that we don't consider an ok thing.

It's shameful but eh, it's a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxJ7GKGFG0

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by andykx on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:19AM (#21439224)
This is a straw man argument. Who is making that point?

In general, I find the opinions on these things to be pretty consistent: the “free market” types tend to support Apple/MS - usually with some form of “its their platform” as an argument - and the FOSS types holding the opposite position.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by ASalazarMX on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:45AM (#21443399)
Walled gardens weren't as normalized then.
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