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To me it smells like flat out dishonesty. They are pretending the App Store is this premium high quality service that the riff-raff wants to get unfair access t
by Drakim 3y ago
To me it smells like flat out dishonesty. They are pretending the App Store is this premium high quality service that the riff-raff wants to get unfair access to, while they have actually been fighting tooth, claw, and nail to make any other alternative way of getting apps onto the iPhone physically impossible. If I wanna make an app for my mom's iPhone, I *can't* because Apple is preventing me. All while saying I'm trying to take advantage of them by wanting to get my app on the App Store. While working hard to make sure I have no other options.
It's one small step removed from "stop hitting yourself" logic.
- withinboredom 3y agoFurther, they actively stifle competition on their app store. Want to launch an MVP? It's "too similar to other apps in this market."
- ben_w 3y agoWhile I doubt they're going to be good judges of similarity, in the cases where they are correct that it is too similar, you don't have the "V" part of "Viable". > “All happy companies are diferent: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition” — I may be creeped out by the guy himself, but I think Peter Thiel is right about that.
- withinboredom 3y agoEveryone starts in the womb, but very few of us tread the same paths.
- ben_w 3y agoI think the human analogy of an MVP is around when they can stand upright and talk, perhaps even a bit later than that. Before birth we're definitely a pre-release; but we won't reach product-market fit until whatever our culture counts as a coming-of-age ceremony.
- Pfhortune 3y agoIsn't this just picking winners with more steps?
- ben_w 3y agoQuite possibly, which is related to my doubt of their skill at judging similarity.
- threeseed 3y ago> If I wanna make an app for my mom's iPhone, I can't because Apple is preventing me You can. You just add her to TestFlight and renew the app every 3 months.