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The only clients that will want to evade Apples app store in the future will have very specific requirements that Apple doesn't want to promote or be scam apps,

The only clients that will want to evade Apples app store in the future will have very specific requirements that Apple doesn't want to promote or be scam apps, so I wouldn't worry about your clients wanting to jump ship. It simply won't be worth it to them to lose the majority of ios users or support multiple deployment avenues.

joshstrange 3y ago
Have you met "clients"? They might not want to jump ship but I can already hear "Why isn't our app in app store X as well‽". Dealing with 2 stores is already a pain, adding 2-3 more would drive me nuts. Both as a solo dev and for my company.
- Teever 3y ago
  Sounds like another opportunity to make money. "Well I charge $x per store for testing.
  - jonny_eh 3y ago
    Exactly, if there's anything you hate doing for clients, put a sufficient price tag on it so it's worth your trouble.
- seanalltogether 3y ago
  Yes I've had clients on Android for 14 years now and none of them want to distribute outside of Google Play. There might have been some flirting with the idea of publishing to the amazon app store or samsung app store, but it never happened cause there was no benefit. I do have one android app that has to be distributed on a separate app store in china but that's out of our hands and has to be passed off to a third party to accomplish anyway.
- stametseater 3y ago
  When you say you "can already hear", what you mean is you can imagine hypothetically hearing it, not that you've actually been hearing it, right? Because multiple app stores already exist for Android and I've never heard anybody say what you're suggesting. People are usually just bewildered at the Amazon appstore even existing.
  - joshstrange 3y ago
    > Because multiple app stores already exist for Android and I've never heard anybody say what you're suggesting Ok, but there is a huge difference between iOS and Android. All my clients want it on Android and iOS but they only really care about iOS. iOS is normally the last platform that approves apps (web being immediate/no approval and Play being faster on average) and without fail my clients pretend there is no app until it's released on iOS. I'll even tell them "Go to hxxp://yoursite.com, it's pretty much exactly what you will see in the app" and they almost never even check the web, I know this because once the iOS app is release /then/ I hear "Can we change X? Let's move Y to X! I don't like the color here....". All that to say: multiple app stores on iOS /will/ be something I hear about whereas I bet I could forget to release on updates on Play and no one (clients themselves at least) would notice.

joshstrange 3y ago

Have you met "clients"? They might not want to jump ship but I can already hear "Why isn't our app in app store X as well‽". Dealing with 2 stores is already a pain, adding 2-3 more would drive me nuts. Both as a solo dev and for my company.

Teever 3y ago
Sounds like another opportunity to make money. "Well I charge $x per store for testing.
- jonny_eh 3y ago
  Exactly, if there's anything you hate doing for clients, put a sufficient price tag on it so it's worth your trouble.
seanalltogether 3y ago
Yes I've had clients on Android for 14 years now and none of them want to distribute outside of Google Play. There might have been some flirting with the idea of publishing to the amazon app store or samsung app store, but it never happened cause there was no benefit. I do have one android app that has to be distributed on a separate app store in china but that's out of our hands and has to be passed off to a third party to accomplish anyway.
stametseater 3y ago
When you say you "can already hear", what you mean is you can imagine hypothetically hearing it, not that you've actually been hearing it, right? Because multiple app stores already exist for Android and I've never heard anybody say what you're suggesting. People are usually just bewildered at the Amazon appstore even existing.
- joshstrange 3y ago
  > Because multiple app stores already exist for Android and I've never heard anybody say what you're suggesting Ok, but there is a huge difference between iOS and Android. All my clients want it on Android and iOS but they only really care about iOS. iOS is normally the last platform that approves apps (web being immediate/no approval and Play being faster on average) and without fail my clients pretend there is no app until it's released on iOS. I'll even tell them "Go to hxxp://yoursite.com, it's pretty much exactly what you will see in the app" and they almost never even check the web, I know this because once the iOS app is release /then/ I hear "Can we change X? Let's move Y to X! I don't like the color here....". All that to say: multiple app stores on iOS /will/ be something I hear about whereas I bet I could forget to release on updates on Play and no one (clients themselves at least) would notice.