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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by parkovski on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:48PM (#24152660)
I hope Epic wins this. I would buy from Apple again if they would open their platforms. I think it's ridiculous that when I was working on an app, the app would expire after a week unless I paid them more money for the privilege of keeping an app I wrote on a phone I paid for. Nevermind software other people made that I should be free to choose to run.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by donor20 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:02PM (#24152780)
You can distribute an app for free if you are part of their developer program - which is something like $99 for all the needed software and tooling (perhaps one of the lowest SDK prices historically?). They will actually subsidize all your bandwidth / storage / distribution costs in that case.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by fenomas on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:34AM (#24154466)
> You can distribute an app for free if you are part of their developer program

I think you mean: "you can submit an app to them and they will decide whether or not to distribute it".

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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by zucker42 on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:53AM (#24154180)
You can distribute an app for free if you pay Apple $99?
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by the_hoser on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:08AM (#24153815)
Not even close to the lowest price.

And that isn't a solution, either.

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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by yellowapple on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:18AM (#24154350)
> free

> something like $99

Pick one.

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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by fomine3 on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:32AM (#24154445)
I should tell you that Android SDK takes $0.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by pjmlp on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:51AM (#24154596)
And $25 for distribution on the store.

So what, if those $100 prevent shitty copy-cats, the more the better.

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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by hesarenu on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:56AM (#24154652)
It does not in fact prevent anything. There are hundreds of shitty apps in both iOS and Android.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by pjmlp on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:06AM (#24154726)
Which proves the point that $100 is quite affordable.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by grumple on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:41AM (#24155428)
For first world professionals, it’s nothing.

For others it’s steep. And maybe that was the point.

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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by pjmlp on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:53AM (#24155511)
Others tend to have an Android dominated market, so....
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by hesarenu on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:53AM (#24155508)
$100 might cheap for westerners. Not for us.
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Re:Epic will mock Apple’s most iconic ad as possible revenge... by pjmlp on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:54AM (#24155516)
True, that is why Android and feature phones rule in such countries, not iOS, thus making a moot point when customers aren't using Apple devices anyway.
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