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It seems to me that Apple is shooting itself in the foot very hard with moves like this. At the end of the day, developers are creating value for your platform.
by tachyonbeam 7y ago
It seems to me that Apple is shooting itself in the foot very hard with moves like this. At the end of the day, developers are creating value for your platform. If you treat them like shit, they will leave.
A lot of teenagers who are learning to program right now are definitely not going to be able to pay $100 a year to distribute toy programs they're making for fun. Heck, a lot of adults developers won't pay that. Apple has just made Linux significantly more appealing for all of these people.
I own a MacBook Air at home (and a Linux desktop). I know this will definitely motivate me to go back to a Linux laptop for my next purchase. This move isn't just hostile to users, it's hostile to developers, hostile to the people creating value for the platform.
- mrec 7y agoEven if you can easily afford it, the pay-to-publish model should be setting off warning bells. Vanity publishing has been a real thing for a very long time, and normally isn't something that people consciously want to be doing.
- sukilot 7y agoThis doesn't make much sense. Notarization is for the benefit of users, not developers. To an aspiring young dev, the right-click-opening Mac user market offers more users than the Linux market. For a user, right-click-open is easier than installing Linux.