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wasting a month to implement it and maintaining two different billing systems so I can pay the apple tax? really?????

they didn't ask for 50% or 80%, so instead of being thankful like some fanbois you are being sarcastic /s

You are confusing market access and distribution. If I wanted alot of eyes on my app and I saw a benefit from the appstore then I would pay the 30%.

All I want is being able to give to MY customers, who I paid MY money to acquire, a native app. Apple is refusing to allow this, unless I pay protection money. Textbook rent seeking

I am in the app store because my customers demanded an app. If I had a way to deliver one similar to android I would stay tf away.

no marketing unless you mean spending more on app store seo or whatever it is called

no app development unless you mean the non existent support and the willy-nilly api changes

no customer support unless you mean refunding subscription when the dev is not at fault.

I don't want access to apple's customers! I want my customers to be able to load my app on their devices.

IF Microsoft pulled such a move people would lose their minds

makes more sense now :)

so for a subscription based app, I have to partner with Apple (30% of income is partnering) for the privilege of allowing me to offer my customers a native app? I do the marketing, content creation, app development and customer support and every year I pay the ̶𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚋̶ their cut so they won't burn down my store?

As a consumer I mostly agree BUT no one forces me to pay for anything, so I avoid dodgy sites.

As a developer of an app that is in IAP hell right now I disagree. I don't care for the app store, nor does it provide me with any benefit. All I want is for my existing customers, for who I spent MY marketing money to acquire, to be able to install my app on a device THEY paid money for.

our app is doing the exact same thing yet we got a rejection

did he end up implementing IAP?

they change the IAP rules every couple of years and they make them more restrictive and more convoluted with each change.

I only want Apple to stop forcing IAP down my throat as a developer of an app the has zero benefit from the app store.

thanks for that. good luck on chart 5

Do I start at Chart 1 Level D- even if I am not a complete slob? Even worse do I stay at each level for 4 days (35yo)?

I mean the first exercise is bending forward 2(!!!) times in 2 minutes.

that's what I am trying to tell him. comparing his prediction a week ago with measures to a prediction a month or more ago without measure is pointless.

at what multiplier would you consider being skeptical about what he says.

your comparison of the 2 mil which was the worst case scenario months ago, and now irrelevant, with 40k which was his prediction from 10 days ago is wrong.

9 days ago Ioaniddis said

If I were to make an informed estimate based on the limited testing data we have, I would say that covid-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA,