Re:Apple-Developer Relations
by addicted on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:35PM
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> Sellable desktop software became obsolete due to piracy.
This is almost certainly not true. If anything hurt selling desktop apps, it was Apples policies encouraging dirt cheap apps on the App Store that then led to customer expectations of the cost of apps dropping dramatically.
There were recent stories about how software shops like Panic are going back to selling only desktop apps and ending their iOS apps.
If anything, the technology to prevent piracy had only gotten significantly better by the time ios came out, and companies were doing just fine even before.
This is almost certainly not true. If anything hurt selling desktop apps, it was Apples policies encouraging dirt cheap apps on the App Store that then led to customer expectations of the cost of apps dropping dramatically.
There were recent stories about how software shops like Panic are going back to selling only desktop apps and ending their iOS apps.
If anything, the technology to prevent piracy had only gotten significantly better by the time ios came out, and companies were doing just fine even before.