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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by qwytw on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:00PM (#39135216)
> Apple does that makes it possible for a developer to produce a high quality app on their phone

This is not one sided at all. Historically generally Apple benefited more from developers releasing apps on their platforms than the other way around. Arguably that's still the case.

> Apple has to pay for all that somehow

So by selling devices? How did they pay for developing OSX/macOS and their APIs and tools for decades?

> They could also just charge a large cost for access to the SDK a la console systems,

There are many exploitative and unfair things they could do because of their dominant positions in the market, yes that's correct.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by ben_w on Sunday January 28, 2024 @10:09AM (#39166461)
> So by selling devices? How did they pay for developing OSX/macOS and their APIs and tools for decades?

Badly. They very nearly went bankrupt with that model.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by qwytw on Sunday January 28, 2024 @04:39PM (#39170072)
> Badly. They very nearly went bankrupt with that model.

Like between 2000 and 2007? They did just fine, just like macOS is perfectly fine now.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by ben_w on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:39PM (#39180374)
Like between 1993 and 2000, only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman.

Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now"? How many people only use it because it's necessary for iOS development?

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by qwytw on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @05:37PM (#39196897)
> only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman.

Exactly, he knew that the success of the platform relied on third party developers (NeXTSTEP was a huge improvement)

> Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now"? How many people only use it because it's necessary for iOS development?

I don't know? Do you? I would bet on around 5%. Although I'm not quite sure what's your point?

> Like between 1993 and 2000,

Which was a relatively short period, compared to their post 2000 succes.

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