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Not just the developer account, the developers are required to maintain app specific infrastructure to do things like push notifications. That's why FOSS apps r
by usrn 4y ago
Not just the developer account, the developers are required to maintain app specific infrastructure to do things like push notifications. That's why FOSS apps rarely have them.
All of this on top of the the hardware cost and having someone run the iOS API treadmill and deal with app store reviews makes FOSS on iOS prohibitively expensive for everyone but the most committed. It pretty much filters out everyone that isn't a corporation or irrationally passionate.
- HidyBush 4y agoI mean, I would suppose people who want IRC on their phone must be pretty senior. They can't spare 2 dollars per year to pay for the developers to keep the app afloat?