That's never really an excuse for lock-in. If they are so superior, they wouldn't need to worry about developers not using them, right?
Using tools as a way to control developers is just disgusting.
Re:Apple Execs on Facebook (2011)
by kitsunesoba on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:39AM
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It doesn't matter how good your SDKs and tooling are, there will always be a large number of developers who will instead prefer options they perceive to be cheaper or more convenient. It's the same reason why McDonalds has no problem selling their food when far higher quality options exist.
Outright control is probably overboard yes, but I don't see any reason why a platform maintainer needs to do anything to encourage low investment apps.
There is a huge difference between encouraging and forbidding. And quality or security in the above case are used as an excuse to hide the anti-competitive intent.
This is an argument to trust developers and business school grads as opposed to a company that I have a 40+ relationship with. If you want developer freedom choose a different platform. Apple is for users and not developers. We all have the freedom to do whatever we want. Why some people choose to constantly rail against a company they think is ridiculous os mystifying. Move on bless some other platform with your gifts.
One should develop for a platform they enjoy.
In their shoes, even if the App Store didn’t exist, I’m sure I wouldn’t be all that thrilled to open the floodgates for lowest common denominator apps built with other toolkits that do nothing to leverage what makes the platforms good and unique.