Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

  • TheMurphy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The probably couldn’t afford the development /s

    But on the positive side, Apple is now forced to allow other app stores on all phones in the EU.

    So that’s probably a bigger win than this is a loss.

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        8 months ago

        I dont know much about mobile but cant you stick your pwa in some electron-like thing and distribute it as an app? i mean its still a pain of course

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          8 months ago

          You can, but then I’d have to pay $99 per year to Apple to have it on the App Store. 3rd party app stores are gonna be a wild west for a while, so not sure it’s viable as an option.

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            8 months ago

            I just made my app as a PWA, just few months ago, just to support iOS. F**k them. I’m not making any effort for iOS apps anymore.

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              8 months ago

              Yep, fuck them. For me it was not the deciding factor in making my app a PWA, but it definitely was one of the reasons I went for it.

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                8 months ago

                I already had android app written in kotlin, so I didn’t need PWA. I guess it’s cool that I can use this PWA on computer, even if nobody would use my app on computer. When somebody asks me, why my app is not on App Store, I just ask them, would they pay 99$ per year for an app, and they say never. Well, there is your answer.