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Please don't do this. You're short term gain is the worlds long term loss.
by fartcannon 6y ago
Please don't do this. You're short term gain is the worlds long term loss.
- quesera 6y agoAre you arguing for a zero-middleman retail relationship? Or just anti-Apple?
- Mindwipe 6y agoI imagine it's anti-middleman when the middleman has the keys to all software operating on the OS and hardware.
- webmobdev 6y agoIt's about choice and loss of control / ownership of our device. Apple app store can exist. But they absolutely shouldn't FORCE us developers and users to use it.
- zapzupnz 6y agoJust as well nobody's forced to use it, then.
- zapzupnz 6y agoIt's OP's side project; its their decision as to how they choose to spend their time and energy, what trade-offs are involved with each option, and what's most important to them. OP owes the world, outside of their paying customers, nothing.
- webmobdev 6y agoDon't let the downvotes discourage you from speaking up again on this. OP is indeed being very shortsighted as a developer by supporting the app store.
- fartcannon 6y agoThanks. I'm getting trounced on Apple posts. Open computing is why we are all here. Without it, where would we be, right? Short sighted profiteering.
- saagarjha 6y agoYou're probably getting downvoted because the situation on macOS is nothing like it is on iOS.
- zapzupnz 6y ago^ This exactly. It's demonstrative of the knee-jerk reactions from people who see the mere mention of the words 'Apple' or "App Store" and immediately come to piss all over everybody's cereal without actually knowing the full story. All I see are baseless assumptions coupled with a condescending, know-it-all tone from those unwilling to engage with either OP's points, more prone to redefine the discussion to allow their soapboxing. Worse, it's delivered with a tone that screams "oh, the silly thing, why didn't they come to me first? I could have told them better!". Pardon the rant but it gets tiresome in every damn thread about anything vaguely Apple-related.
- fartcannon 6y agoIf they'd open up their platforms, they'd get praised. Instead, they make everything worse. They have tremendous influence and it strongly affects the world. Through that influence, they ruined the openess of mp3 players, GUIs, and then cellphones. Now the writing is on the wall: personal computers are next. Forgive me if I care about this stuff.
- zapzupnz 6y agoI'm happy for you to care about this as much as you want. It doesn't make the basically ignoring all the OP wrote in their article for the sake of soapboxing any more tolerable.