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by _qulr 6y ago
I do it all the time, and have for decades. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Personally, I don't have much trust for PayPal or Stripe. PayPal is infamous for randomly banning accounts, for example.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> This in comparison to the wild west of submitting your payment information to every Tom, Dick and Mary out there. Somehow capitalism survived this situation in all of history prior to 2008. Also, Visa and Mastercard have a duopoly over
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Their war chest is funded by gambling mechanics, mostly gambling mechanics which are actively aimed at minors. Funny that Apple wants a cut of this action. In fact the App Store was a giant contributor to the free with In App Purchase
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's a combination of numbers and technology. Numbers: Android and iOS each have over a billion users, so it makes more sense to make dedicated apps for those platforms. Desktop platforms are much smaller, so it makes less sense to ded
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by _qulr 6y ago
Because the US Congress forced it out of Apple. It's long been rumored, but public proof came only a few weeks ago.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> asking for an under the table deal How is it under the table? Apple's secret 15% deal with Amazon can go unnoticed, but everyone in the world would notice if Epic suddenly came out with an alternative app store on iOS.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> all emails be written assuming that they could be made public That's not what I meant though. I meant that the emails were making arguments specifically targeted at the public and/or the courts. If you viewed the emails as Ep
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's wild that there were not 20 people proofreading it beforehand. Ah, to be a billionaire running a private company.
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by _qulr 6y ago
It really depends on what "app store" means. Is an indie Mac developers's web store an app store? I'd say yes. They just sell their own apps, not the apps of other developers. I'm not sure why legally this would be
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by _qulr 6y ago
"Subject: Consumer Choice & Competition" They might as well have made it "Subject: Antitrust" That email would have been a pretty rude opening for someone looking for a sweetheart special deal. Not "nice" a
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by _qulr 6y ago
Read the emails. "We hope that Apple will also make these options equally available to all iOS developers" https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21807251/e... This was never a &quot
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by _qulr 6y ago
Has Apple become increasingly hostile? Yes. Since inception? No. For example, my MacBook Pro from 2007 had a user-replaceable battery. I just popped the old one out, popped the new one in, 15 seconds, it was brilliant.
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by _qulr 6y ago
On macOS you can block these with the excellent product Little Snitch. I've got several rules for Google Chrome in Little Snitch that seem to do the trick. Deny outgoing UDP connections, and Deny outgoing TCP connections to port 80 for
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by _qulr 6y ago
On the user side, there are security updates. Yes, you can refuse to install OS updates that patch vulnerabilities, but obviously that's a big problem for the user. And eventually the vendor stops providing security updates altogether
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Well, you're using someone else's products (dev tools, compilers, OS libraries) you buy and license from them under certain commercial terms. If you don't like the terms, don't buy them. This doesn't tell the w
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I don't see it mentioned in the article, but what gets me every time is that the "right-click" trick only works the second time you try to launch the app. The first time, right-click or not, MacOS won't let you laun
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by _qulr 6y ago
The problem is that we didn't buy into a walled garden. Mac OS X was an open platform from 2000 until 2012, when Gatekeeper was added, ostensibly for security. It's very difficult if you've invested in a platform for many yea
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by _qulr 6y ago
This is not accurate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217942
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Near monopoly power. We are talking about Macs still, right? The problem is that there's only one Apple Developer Program for both iOS and macOS. If you get kicked out of the developer program for reasons related to the iOS App St
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Hold on a minute -- MacOS phones home every single time you launch an application? It's on first launch of an application, but not on subsequent launches of that application.
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by _qulr 6y ago
I would request that we please not rehash this debate here. It's been debated at length already elsewhere on HN. This is why I didn't mention Epic in my blog post, even though it's clearly the subtext. The point of my blog po
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by _qulr 6y ago
The developer who signs the software is thereby taking legal responsibility for the software, and taking the blame if anything is wrong with it. That's not a good risk unless you're signing for someone you trust completely.
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's important to distinguish between Developer ID and notarization. Signing an app is done by the developer. Notarizing the app is done by Apple. If you check the code signature of a Developer ID signed app, you'll see the develo
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by _qulr 6y ago
In addition to paying the Apple Developer Program fee, you as an open source or hobbyist developer are required to sign a legal contract with Apple in order to be able to code sign your software. This can be even more problematic than the f
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Apple has a single developer program for all platforms. This is the fundamental problem, in my opinion. When Developer ID was introduced, it was supposed to be a mere formality, a cryptographic guarantee that an app was signed by a par
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Nit: I believe stapling is supposed to fix this issue. No, even stapled apps phone home. The difference is that stapled apps can still run if Catalina can't contact Apple (e.g., no internet), whereas unstapled apps can't. Loo
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Also, what kind of "viable software business" has trouble paying $100 a year? The issue isn't the money. The blog post was written in the context of the widely reported story of Apple threatening to terminate the develop
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by _qulr 6y ago
> This feature is at about the right spot for me. The issue is not whether expert users can run unsigned software, the issue is whether unsigned software will even be written and distributed by developers. Perhaps some free software, but
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by _qulr 6y ago
The problem is that App Store is the only distribution method on iOS, so it's almost inevitable that you butt heads with Apple if you make iOS apps. How many App Store developers haven't had some kind of fight with Apple? So if Ap
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by _qulr 6y ago
That was a bug, Apple worked together with Zoom, and Zoom still distributes software on all of Apple's platforms, including the Mac. Their developer account was not revoked.

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