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And? Other’s shitty shady app store would never have been a good thing - now it is just gonna be financially disincentivized.
by kaba0 3y ago
And? Other’s shitty shady app store would never have been a good thing - now it is just gonna be financially disincentivized.
- eptcyka 3y agoAs someone trying to contribute to an open source iOS app, an app store that doesn't require me to pay money to use the NFC entitlement, muck about changing bundle IDs to be able to build an open source app and run it on my own device, or build an app that I can use for longer than 7 days without publishing to an app store, I take issue with your framing of other app stores. The original app store is already shitty, this legislation will make it not worse, but it will not be the solution to my personal woes with the shitty app store.
- kaba0 3y agoNonprofits are explicitly exempted from the fees. An fdroid like app store seems quite possible.
- simfree 3y agoNot with the Core Technology Fee, nor with the Apple app review process standing in the way. These are severe restrictions that prevent something like FDroid from being operated on iOS.
- eptcyka 3y agoI’d still need to get Apple’s approval to use NFC in an app I’d want to deploy on the non-existent fdroid analogue. I’d still need to pay for that.
- simfree 3y agoApple has successfully delayed an equivalent to F-Droid for iOS users for another year. Plenty of useful apps like the Orca card reader (see your transit card balance by just tapping your card, no internet required), fun games like Antimine, and such where the devs will only target barrier free platforms as it's a passion project are missing in action on iOS.