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Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by inviromentalist on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:33PM (#22302523)
Any chance Apple would make it possible to compile an iOS app without giving Apple any money?

I want to support my customers, but I don't want to support anti competitive FAANG

Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by darklion on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:43PM (#22303222)
> Any chance Apple would make it possible to compile an iOS app without giving Apple any money?

Absolutely! It's called a "web application", and you can write them in a variety of languages, including compiled ones.

> I want to support my customers, but I don't want to support anti competitive FAANG

It's weird, because English is my first language, but I have no idea what that sentence means. Perhaps you could elaborate?

FWIW, here's the closest I could come to translating it: "I want to write applications that natively run on hundreds of millions of devices, which development for, and use of, directly supports and props up [an anti-competitive FAANG], but somehow as long as I'm exempt from paying them a small annual fee, I'm morally and ethically OK with that."

Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by city41 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:54PM (#22303325)
FWIW I would expect the OP's real objection is having to buy a Mac to develop iOS apps, not the annual fee.
Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by hombre_fatal on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:21PM (#22303593)
They could buy a used Macbook.
Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by rickdg on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:52PM (#22303844)
The web on iOS is deliberately gimped.
Re:Swift Playgrounds for macOS by terminaljunkid on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @02:33AM (#22306711)
If you mean not buying a Mac, I heard that is possible by virtualization of mac OS using some QEMU/KVM Hack.

I don't know if it needs modified builds of OS. if so, stay away from that..