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Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by FirmwareBurner on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:33PM (#39349234)
Who was force into bankruptcy? You're just making stuff up at this point for a strawman argument.

Apple's walled garden can more easily force you into bankruptcy though since you have no alternative way to distribute iOS apps to customers, therefore your revenue stream can be cut off without warning. Just because that one dev in that example didn't go bankrupt, doesn't prove your argument.

Meanwhile, Microsoft can't stop you from distributing apps on Windows, even though you're clawing to some made up strawman that they can make you bankrupt. You can still sell your apps just fine on your own website and people can easily pay you, download it and install it without Microsoft's permission since you can do whatever you want with that os, just like on MacOS.

I have no idea how you can argue the latter app distribution model is worse than the walled garden one, just through two anecdotal examples.

Re:Developers Are in Open Revolt over Apple's New App Store ... by seec on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:16PM (#39387109)
This guy is unreal. Apple "fan users" in general are something else, it's like their logic (or lack thereof) got stuck at the elementary level or something.

To be clear I have been an Apple customer since way before the iPhone, but I really feel bad about the new breed of Apple fanatics. To be honest, I have the feeling that some cognitive limitation is part of the reason for being such a loyal customer.