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I have some sideproject apps that I built with Flutter that I use on my Android phone, and I would make them available on iOS if I didn't have to pay any money

by gman83 5y ago

I have some sideproject apps that I built with Flutter that I use on my Android phone, and I would make them available on iOS if I didn't have to pay any money to do so.

scarface74 5y ago
So the question is why would I as a consumer want to buy a least common denominator app using a cross platform framework that wasn’t actually tested on real hardware?
- lucb1e 5y ago
  You can always uninstall it if it's crap right? It would be available to you as a choice, and now it's simply not available.
  - kitsunesoba 5y ago
    If the App Store becomes full of “checkbox ports” it’s going to be even more difficult to navigate than it already is. Part of that is on Apple for not investing more in discovery, but copious numbers of low effort ports isn’t a good thing to have anyway. In the game world, bad ports of console games to PC and bad ports of games from any other platform to the Switch are one of the most consistent gripes — quite often the sentiment surrounding them is that they’d be better off not existing.
    - borland 5y ago
      The app store has been full of "checkbox ports" since about 6 months after it launched
  - freedomben 5y ago
    You're showing your cards as an android person ;-) I agree with you, but nearly everyone on apple products will not. I get a (too me very perplexing) very similar respose when I ask things like, "why would it hurt people who want an Apple curated app store experience to allow a buried setting in the settings menu that allows sideloading for the few people who want that?"
wildzzz 5y ago
You still need to pay the $100/yr to get the app out to anyone else's iPhone using TestFlight or an enterprise app store. You can build and test on your own iPhone (or an emulator) for free but that's the limit.
ulfw 5y ago
But that's exactly the type of thing why iOS apps tend to be of higher quality than Android apps. The whole "I do the bare minimum to support your platform" thing isn't going well with iOS users.

by gman83 5y ago

I have some sideproject apps that I built with Flutter that I use on my Android phone, and I would make them available on iOS if I didn't have to pay any money to do so.

scarface74 5y ago

So the question is why would I as a consumer want to buy a least common denominator app using a cross platform framework that wasn’t actually tested on real hardware?

lucb1e 5y ago
You can always uninstall it if it's crap right? It would be available to you as a choice, and now it's simply not available.
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  If the App Store becomes full of “checkbox ports” it’s going to be even more difficult to navigate than it already is. Part of that is on Apple for not investing more in discovery, but copious numbers of low effort ports isn’t a good thing to have anyway. In the game world, bad ports of console games to PC and bad ports of games from any other platform to the Switch are one of the most consistent gripes — quite often the sentiment surrounding them is that they’d be better off not existing.
  - borland 5y ago
    The app store has been full of "checkbox ports" since about 6 months after it launched
- freedomben 5y ago
  You're showing your cards as an android person ;-) I agree with you, but nearly everyone on apple products will not. I get a (too me very perplexing) very similar respose when I ask things like, "why would it hurt people who want an Apple curated app store experience to allow a buried setting in the settings menu that allows sideloading for the few people who want that?"

wildzzz 5y ago

You still need to pay the $100/yr to get the app out to anyone else's iPhone using TestFlight or an enterprise app store. You can build and test on your own iPhone (or an emulator) for free but that's the limit.

ulfw 5y ago

But that's exactly the type of thing why iOS apps tend to be of higher quality than Android apps. The whole "I do the bare minimum to support your platform" thing isn't going well with iOS users.