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The App store is one of the most disappointing things to happen to personal computers. Instead of empowering indie devs it shut them out and empowered corporati
by pinephoneguy 5y ago
The App store is one of the most disappointing things to happen to personal computers. Instead of empowering indie devs it shut them out and empowered corporations.
- ravenstine 5y agoWhat's crazy to me is that Apple could still win over a ton of developers by actually listening to the sentiment and responding to it. As someone who's been dabbling in native development after over a decade of JavaScript/Ruby/Python/PHP, the iOS development toolchain does seem quite nice even though I don't own an iPhone. If Apple quit with the highway robbery and took the unfairness of their system seriously, I might actually want to buy an iPhone and work on building iOS apps. But with Apple taking a massive cut of revenue and having this inconsistent and headachey review process, why would I do that? Life is too short. For many, that's still their thing, but there are easier ways to write code and get it out there. iPhones aren't the end all and be all of app development.