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Yes, we know. Ask any iOS developer friend of yours and you'll know that Apple never backs down, until the incident gets publicity. And the non-malicious expla
by tsycho 6y ago
Yes, we know. Ask any iOS developer friend of yours and you'll know that Apple never backs down, until the incident gets publicity.
And the non-malicious explanation for that is simple. The majority of the million apps in the app store are small fry to them, and they can't scale support to that level in any empathetic rational manner.
My wishlist for legislation is:
1/ Apple has to allow side loading of apps (make it an advanced developer setting, with plenty of warnings and periodic reminders, that's fine).
2/ Apple cannot force usage of Apple pay and apple sign in.
3/ Apple cannot force developers to hide any options or even information about alternative mechanisms to pay for content, or sign up to a service.
- kergonath 6y agoYeah it certainly is perfectible. I’d just like to retain decent security at the platform level. We know that if sideloading can be enabled, at some point Adobe will require it because they won’t be bothered. I am conflicted about Sign In with Apple. It’s heavy handed, but I clearly benefit by not having to trust Google or Facebook for this. There should be a standard with several providers, like FIDO, but somehow I don’t see this happening as long as Facebook and Google are utterly dominant. I completely agree with your third point.