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Cost of framework development is a fair point, and they do continue to add things like ARKit, the Swift language, and a million new submenus in Xcode ;) But th
by lux 6y ago
Cost of framework development is a fair point, and they do continue to add things like ARKit, the Swift language, and a million new submenus in Xcode ;)
But that's been true of all OSes for decades and doesn't make iOS specialized compared to macOS or any more deserving of 30% of every developer's gross profits.
- nickff 6y agoI never said anything about compensating Apple for framework development costs; my point is about aligning incentives.
- banachtarski 6y agoHow is that a fair point. Developers don't WANT bespoke frameworks that lock you into a single ecosystem. We would obviously prefer open standards and specifications supported by multiple vendors. The popularity of frameworks such as Flutter and QT or APIs such as OpenGL and Vulkan prove that. The SDKs Apple chooses to provide are entirely elective on their part and we shouldn't pretend that as developers, they deserve to charge us for this.