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> Boutique software companies, such as Panic or Omni Group, plus other developers could really extend the ecosystem beyond content consumption and simple docume
by daydream 3y ago
> Boutique software companies, such as Panic or Omni Group, plus other developers could really extend the ecosystem beyond content consumption and simple document creation tasks.
If that’s the case why hasn’t Omni or Panic written these apps already?
The 30% cut Apple takes is indeed large. But any new store will likely attract only a small fraction of all App Store customers.
Can you help me understand this better?
- derefr 3y agoOwning an iPad, there's one thing I know it's missing that makes me feel that I can't really use it seriously for development. And that thing is that you can't publish an iPadOS app on the App Store that allows you to compile and run native code within the app. So while there are "cloud IDEs" for iPadOS; and there are local IDEs for interpreted languages (or which do sandboxed interpretation of otherwise-compiled languages, like the Swift Playground) for iPadOS; there are no local IDEs for iPadOS that actually compile and execute native code. AFAICT, this restriction (and the one where no app but Safari can use use the Webkit JavaScriptCore JIT) is in place, because the alternative — allowing arbitrarily-badly-coded apps to do "dynamic native code injection" — would be a near-infinite wellspring of jailbreak exploit vectors. But, insofar as Apple's own semi-manual QA process is required to preventing the publication of apps that include this kind of "dynamic native code injection", a third-party App Store would presumably not inherently have this same restriction (although individual third-party App Stores might.)