Oh fuck off with that apologist bs. Scenario: you want to sell an app for Mac. You can put it on the Mac app store and pay Apple’s tax (and live at the mercy

Oh fuck off with that apologist bs. Scenario: you want to sell an app for Mac. You can put it on the Mac app store and pay Apple’s tax (and live at the mercy of Apple, who are a terrible business partner) Or you can sell it through your website and not pay Apple’s tax. Except if you do this, Apple will tell your customers that you’re potentially a virus, and you have to invest more on customer support and education materials just to teach people how to launch your app (through no fault of your own). In some cases, it’s just not feasible to do this, and you just have to accept reduced sales and/or increased returns/chargebacks from angry customers that blame you for Apple’s decision. Apple’s Mac app store has a huge competitive advantage thanks to this unfair practice. Your competitors will beat you if they put their app on the Mac app store, no matter how much money you invest into advertising and improving your product. That’s anti-competitive behavior from a monopolist. It’s the same situation on Android (it’s actually worse on Android, as Google is the pioneer in this field)