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Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by daydream on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:55PM (#35735966)
> Boutique software companies, such as Panic or Omni Group, plus other developers could really extend the ecosystem beyond content consumption and simple document creation tasks.

If that’s the case why hasn’t Omni or Panic written these apps already?

The 30% cut Apple takes is indeed large. But any new store will likely attract only a small fraction of all App Store customers.

Can you help me understand this better?

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Re:Apple Releases App Store Monthly Active User Counts for E... by derefr on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:39PM (#35736252)
AFAIK it's because you can't publish an iPadOS app on the App Store that allows you to compile and run native code within the app. So there are "cloud IDEs" for iPadOS, and local IDEs for interpreted languages for iPadOS, but no local IDEs for compiled languages for iPadOS.

A third-party App Store would presumably not inherently have this restriction (although individual third-party App Stores might.)

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