Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing

Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by fsloth on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:13PM (#27256669)

With the risk of sounding overly harsh - If 99$ per annum is a concrete financial risk maybe being a solo developer is not such a good lifepath financially. I imagine anyone capable of deploying an app store app has pretty good skills and is quite hireable.

Of course individual situations can be different, but this is discussion about the "generic situation".

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by atomicnumber3 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:19PM (#27257232)

One thing I don't like about the iOS model is that 100/yr is a significant barrier to hosting "open source" type apps out of the goodness of your heart. Concrete example: best ssh app on android is ConnectBot which is gratis and free. Best ssh app on iOS is Termius which is crippled by default, nonfree, and requires a $10/mo *subscription* to unlock. I don't mind paying for software I use, but 120/yr for a phone ssh app is too much.

And this is the best app on the store, a less costly and freer competitor hasn't emerged.

And I can't even sideload my own apps.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by fsloth on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:35PM (#27257855)

Buy an Android phone? A Raspberry PI? A Linux box? I don't get it, if a person can't afford to be on a prestige platform like Apple, then that's not a problem, choose another platform.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by vmladenov on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:40PM (#27257412)

What does Termius offer that Panic’s Prompt doesn’t? One-time fee and Panic make some of the best software I’ve used on Apple devices.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by throwaway3699 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:26PM (#27257302)

> I don't mind paying for software I use, but 120/yr for a phone ssh app is too much.

This is because it's much easier to earn money on the long-tail dedicated fans than the masses. Especially when those masses are likely to hate advertising based models with a passion.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by thayne on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:36PM (#27257385)

If you make an app as a hobby $99/year is quite a lot to distribute something you probably won't make much if any money off of.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by fsloth on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:23PM (#27257750)

There is no reason hobbies should be cheap.

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