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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by rbrtl on Thursday June 18, 2020 @06:44AM (#23561805)
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?

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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by nicoburns on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:50AM (#23562158)
> 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.

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Re:Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account wi... by rhodysurf on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:42AM (#23562116)
That’s his point... on iOS you can’t publish outside of the App Store, which cripples it as a platform
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