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Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise op

Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise open to it though.

MikeTheGreat 3y ago
VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? That said, I'm not surprised that Apple is more lucrative. If nothing else there seems to be less free/open software on Mac and a lot more paid options.
- joecool1029 3y ago
  > VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? Sell apps for certain platforms. Leave the source open, but have the primary appstore versions be paid. I can think of a few useful apps that do this, DAVx5 charges for the play store version but it's free on fdroid. xchat (IRC client) also used to this back in the day for their official windows build. Nothing stopped you from legally using a fork. FAST streams they probably get kickbacks from advertisers for offering, Plex does this.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    Had to look that up - "free ad-supported streaming television" https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pl...
RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
Apple makes a relatively small number of hardware models for their products which, per model, tend to massively outsell any possible competitor. Fewer models to test makes QA much less annoying and time-consuming.
- vlovich123 3y ago
  That logic applies to Quest (at least currently).
vlovich123 3y ago
Apple devices are lucrative compared to Android. But Quest is not Android and given that app purchases on Quest are in the $20-60 range and there's 18M units, I don't buy that Apple is the better bet yet. It may be long term, but I would be waiting for Apple to prove itself first in a very unproven market.

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Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise op

by endisneigh 3y ago

Apple devices are pretty lucrative to make apps on for a variety of reasons. From the article it seems they think the quest is well served but are otherwise open to it though.

MikeTheGreat 3y ago
VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? That said, I'm not surprised that Apple is more lucrative. If nothing else there seems to be less free/open software on Mac and a lot more paid options.
- joecool1029 3y ago
  > VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it? Sell apps for certain platforms. Leave the source open, but have the primary appstore versions be paid. I can think of a few useful apps that do this, DAVx5 charges for the play store version but it's free on fdroid. xchat (IRC client) also used to this back in the day for their official windows build. Nothing stopped you from legally using a fork. FAST streams they probably get kickbacks from advertisers for offering, Plex does this.
  - crtasm 3y ago
    Had to look that up - "free ad-supported streaming television" https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pluto-tv https://www.theverge.com/23680217/fast-services-tubi-roku-pl...
RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
Apple makes a relatively small number of hardware models for their products which, per model, tend to massively outsell any possible competitor. Fewer models to test makes QA much less annoying and time-consuming.
- vlovich123 3y ago
  That logic applies to Quest (at least currently).
vlovich123 3y ago
Apple devices are lucrative compared to Android. But Quest is not Android and given that app purchases on Quest are in the $20-60 range and there's 18M units, I don't buy that Apple is the better bet yet. It may be long term, but I would be waiting for Apple to prove itself first in a very unproven market.