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Re:Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ wi... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:20PM (#24790311)
> It’s easy to see the scenario in which developers simply blame a large proportion of the bugs in their own apps on Apple.

In Mac apps that use Sparkle for updates (lots of them), developers can put whatever they want in changelogs. I've definitely seen entries that go something like "Did XYZ to work around a bug in macOS Kitty Cat."

I can't say whether these changelogs were accurate, but they don't appear to have brought about armageddon.

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Re:Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ wi... by zepto on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:29PM (#24790445)
Developers who use sparkle are generally a lot more experienced than many people who put apps in the App Store.

That is by design. The App Store lowers the bar to entry and enables people who otherwise wouldn’t publish software to do so.

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