Re:AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS...
by m463 on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:13AM
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People also appreciate the steam store.
Honestly the apple app store has been hot garbage since it took off. I remember when it crossed 100,000 apps. And discoverability really didn't happen and really it hasn't improved. It's a shame, really. All the developers just had to put up with what they got - which was mostly luck based.
So what you've gotten is an app store with compliant developers mostly afraid of pissing off apple.
What you don't have is competition and all the benefits it brings both developers and consumers.
Maybe look at it this way - apple makes hardware and apart from the confusion of charging 30% they really want the price of software to be zero so phone sales stay high.
Honestly the apple app store has been hot garbage since it took off. I remember when it crossed 100,000 apps. And discoverability really didn't happen and really it hasn't improved. It's a shame, really. All the developers just had to put up with what they got - which was mostly luck based.
So what you've gotten is an app store with compliant developers mostly afraid of pissing off apple.
What you don't have is competition and all the benefits it brings both developers and consumers.
Maybe look at it this way - apple makes hardware and apart from the confusion of charging 30% they really want the price of software to be zero so phone sales stay high.
the complement of hardware is software: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/