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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by MereInterest on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:58PM (#25380479)
About a decade ago, I got an iPod Touch, on the basis that it would be a portable computer that I could hack around with. Instead I find that it was entirely locked down, and required permission to install any software. Heck, even the developers kit required a $100 license fee, which was outside of my hobbyist budget at the time. For my own device.

The phone ecosystem has already gone to hell, and Apple paved the way there.

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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by djxfade on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:00AM (#25383164)
You absolutely don't need to pay the $100 license fee to develop for iOS. That fee is just required for distribution
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by joking on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:58AM (#25383441)
and to receive push notifications...
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by djxfade on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:35PM (#25411097)
Push notifications on iOS are delivered through Apple's servers, so that makes sense.
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by saagarjha on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:20AM (#25384178)
And use certain APIs, like loading fonts…
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by djxfade on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:37PM (#25411112)
You certainly are able to load fonts on a self signed app, don't know where you got that information from.
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by saagarjha on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:47PM (#25411196)
We got a pull request from someone to enable the fonts entitlement, except they couldn't test it because it costed them money to do so. You can see so yourself here: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by djxfade on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:33AM (#25465399)
That is a permission to install a font system wide, not the same thing
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Re:Cydia, the original app store, sues Apple on antitrust gr... by saagarjha on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:24PM (#25481829)
No, it isn't. To be able to access certain user-provided fonts, you need that entitlement.
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