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Re:Apps Getting Worse by coldtea on Sunday August 08, 2021 @05:46PM (#28110415)
>But how are you supposed to keep that up when apple forces you into a marketplace that basically relies on customer handouts, where your only way to make profit on your 99ct app is to hit it so big, that your have several million customers.

Never saw it being a problem for Panic, the OmniGroup, Procreate, Things, and others. There are tons of apps that are not 99ct and do just fine...

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by ttepasse on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:10PM (#28111058)
Panic for years is rather open how they can't operate profitable on iOS and as a result discontinued many of their great iOS apps. The fear is that the Mac app market goes the same way like the iOS App Store.
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Re:Apps Getting Worse by tonyedgecombe on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:33AM (#28113947)
Also wasn't Omni laying people off recently. I suspect all these companies are struggling.

It's interesting that Apple struggled for a long time with 3rd party software. Developers weren't interested because the volumes were too small. Now it's almost the opposite, there are plenty of customers but the market is awash with cheap or free options.

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