Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by tablespoon on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:26PM (#28544587)

> Google is no more morally good than Apple, but at least pixels run android and are cheaper than iphones. That's basically why I have a pixel: I have no interest in an iphone (though I admit their cameras are outstanding)

Honestly, the main reason I chose and prefer Android is that it's possible to side-load apps. Originally that was because I planned to develop some dumb apps for personal use and didn't want to deal with any corporate bureaucracy. I never did that, but I have no interest in losing the capability.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by jonny_eh on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:43PM (#28545352)

On iOS you can side-load apps that you build and sign yourself, even without the $99/year membership.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by xena on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:25PM (#28545777)

And you have to re build and sign them every 7 days, as opposed to the "install the APK once and it's there forever" of Android

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by jonny_eh on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:15PM (#28555152)

Weird, for me it lasts a year. Maybe because my account used to subscribe?

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by tehnub on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:34PM (#28545872)

Isn’t it only for a few weeks or something?

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by doctor_eval on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:56PM (#28545495)

Nothing stops you from developing and installing your own apps on your own iPhone with Xcode. AFAIK you don’t even need to pay for a developer license. You only have to pay if you want to distribute the app to others.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by SilverRed on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:29PM (#28545825)

The apps become invalid after about 7 days after compiling them. So for development its fine but if you are building utilities for yourself to use, it could be an issue.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by tablespoon on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:22PM (#28546765)

> The apps become invalid after about 7 days after compiling them. So for development its fine but if you are building utilities for yourself to use, it could be an issue.

Exactly, they deliberately crippled the feature to make it too painful to bypass their corporate bureaucracy. It's only useful for the narrow uses that suit Apple. In no way is that ability comparable to side-loading on Android.

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Re:Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system ... by joe_guy on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:04PM (#28547090)

To be clear, even if you do pay up, then they still expire on each anniversary of you signing up.

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