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Should App Developers Keep Paying the Apple Tax?

• raxxorrax 7y ago
  In my opinion, these gated gardens aren't worth it. Sure, you can make quite a lot of money if you manage to release a popular app. But I wouldn't want to develop for a platform that I didn't use myself. I doubt these store would allow any app if it undermines their direct business interest. Furthermore, these kind of stores are packed with exploitative software that could challenge early warez-sites of the late 20th century. I would like to believe that we would have a much healthier ecosystem on smartphones, if manufacturers had opened up devices, which opened their own marketplaces that overwhelmingly failed in most cases. In the end I just don't do development work for mobile platforms. That is reserved for some poor souls to which this stuff is going to get outsourced. They make money, sure, but they do look unhappy.