Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi...
by rbrtl on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:44AM
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Reaching people is not your right. This is the fallacy that social media has taught a generation.
> Id love to see mac users round here survive on mac os with nothing but the app store.
You're moving the goalposts here... Anyone can publish outside the App Store, I thought this was a conversation about publishing ON the Apple Store?
Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi...
by nicoburns on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:50AM
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> Anyone can publish outside the App Store
Not on iOS they can't. Which is the entire point.
> Reaching people is not your right.
No... but a competitive market is in everyone (except the monopolist/oligopolist's) interest. Our entire economic model is based on the premise that markets are competitive. Thus in situation like this where a big player in a significant market is being anti-competitive, it is more than reasonable to complain about it.
People with more users have more word of mouth network effects.
Thats not much of a choice.
Either participate, or be locked out and lag behind the competitors.
The problem here is that Apple is both the platform and the distribution network, when we know very well, computers work just fine with a distribution of power its pretty silly to argue anything counter to that.
Id love to see mac users round here survive on mac os with nothing but the app store.
Good luck without npm, homebrew, wget, or any other convenient way to install software.