Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store...
by charcircuit on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:34PM
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It's not free for Apple to host free apps either. Free apps get subsidized by IAP and other paid apps. An alternate app store would subsidize the install cost for free apps with the money they make from their cut of IAP and paid apps.
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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store...
by EricE on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:51PM
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Which is why the real solution is for a mechanism to install code on an iOS device 100% outside of Apple's control similar to side loading on Android.
I don't trust Apple at all with their capricious and arbitrary blocking of apps/updates. It was bad enough when it appeared to be mostly due to incompetence, but after what they did politically (and in concert with Google, Twitter and Facebook) to Parlor that's when any creditability they had for me in curating the app store went out the window. I don't care where you are on the political spectrum, when a company starts to go down that path it's a danger for all of us.
Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store...
by charcircuit on Thursday January 25, 2024 @06:29PM
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I didn't realize that the fee was for apps and not app stores.