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So you are suggesting users in China apply for a developer license and build their own build of Signal and Protonmail apps? Really? And how would said users re
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
So you are suggesting users in China apply for a developer license and build their own build of Signal and Protonmail apps? Really?
And how would said users receive push notifications for their apps from Signal?
UPD: oh boy, and I forgot to mention that such users would also have to buy Macs - you can't build a 'stupid app' for iOS without XCode, which runs only on Macs that support the latest version of macOS.
- scarface74 6y agoSo now are you suggesting that the government force Apple to release XCode for Windows? Linux?
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoWhat makes you think I'm suggesting that? I was simply ridiculing the idea of forcing users to acquire developers license. The right way, of course, is to allow third party appstores and app sideloading. Just like we have it on macOS - and it doesn't look like someone was made unhappy because he can run Steam and buy Sketch directly from the developer. Someone besides Apple, of course.
- judge2020 6y agoNot forcing people to be a developer to sideload apps isn't addressing the elephant in the room that you need to have a Mac ($800+) to build them. Your solution would best be 'allow downloading and installing .app packages from websites'.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI don't quite understand why you are addressing this to me. I believe I was quite clearly against forcing users to build apps and to allow them installing apps from everywhere.