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by milen 12y ago
it is absolutely worth it to me as a solo developer to pay Apple their 30% to have them handle fulfillment I think one aspect that gets easily lost in the debate is the long-term impact of having your app on the MAS (exclusively or not).
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by milen 12y ago
Speaking of sandboxing, Reeder 2 for Mac (one of the best RSS readers) was forced to remove the option to be set as the default RSS reader from within the app. This is because a function on Yosemite is longer allowed in sandboxed apps but s
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Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store(dancounsell.com)
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Panda 4: Display HN, Product Hunt, GitHub at the Same Time(usepanda.com)
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2015: The Year of Android(rustyshelf.org)
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Succeeding in a Mature App Store(metakite.com)
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Apple – Out of Touch(oleb.net)
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Thoughts on the App Store Review System(marco.org)
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Thoughts on the App Store Review System(cromulentlabs.wordpress.com)
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by milen 12y ago
> In that case, sandboxing could never be introduced. It is quite literally impossible to provide entitlements for any and all functionality under the sun, unless you include the entitlement "allow anything" in the mix. That do
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by milen 12y ago
> The only real argument to be made here is claiming that 3rd-party apps should be able to ship on the MAS without being sandboxed, but that runs counter to the entire purpose of the MAS and will never happen. The argument that I've
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by milen 12y ago
> But beyond that one concern (which may not even be relevant for apps that don't really do anything with the network), there's no real reason to care whether Apple sandboxes a given app that they ship. The concern is that if y
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by milen 12y ago
> Wait, that app had a fake keyboard inside a notification center widget? That's truly awful and roundly deserved to get rejected. While the tastefulness of that solution might be questionable, I believe users should be able to dec
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by milen 12y ago
This is actually just one of the many ridiculous decisions taken by the App Store review team. The truth is that developers keep getting forced to remove functionality, sometimes the decisions are reversed but not always (and it might only
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Professional App Pricing(martiancraft.com)
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The 3 Key Lessons from Apple's Mac App Store Troubles(fastcompany.com)
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ASCII Art and Unicode(blog.helftone.com)
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Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center(marco.org)
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by milen 12y ago
Most likely, your 2013 Mac Pro won't be able to do that because a single cable / single bus DisplayPort v1.2 cannot provide the bandwidth for 5k (DP v1.2 provides about 17.3Gbps which is insufficient). Unless Apple provide a multi
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by milen 12y ago
You're ignoring signalling and overhead. The actual usable bandwidth is about 17.3Gbps, thus not enough (for 60fps uncompressed stream). DisplayPort v1.3 can deliver 25.92Gbps of usable bandwidth, thus required for 5k [1]. [1] http:&#
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by milen 12y ago
Not 60fps over a single cable / single bus without compression. DisplayPort v1.2 can carry around 17.3Gbps (this is minus overhead), so you would need DP v1.3 with an effective rate of 26Gbps to support native at 5k without compression
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by milen 12y ago
As I mentioned in the other thread, there's just not enough bandwidth to drive at 60fps over a single bus / single cable with DisplayPort 1.2 without compression (DP v1.2 gives about 17.3Gbps usable bandwidth which is just not eno
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by milen 12y ago
Yes, L2013 even uses the old Ivy Bridge-E Xeons and it's due for an update to the Haswell v3 Xeons (note that v3 Xeons use different socket, too, LGA-2011-3 vs LGA-2011 for the v2). If I were in the market for the Mac Pro and could aff
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by milen 12y ago
There's just not enough bandwidth over a single bus / single cable with DisplayPort 1.2. The iMac allows them to bypass that bottleneck and be one of the first(?) companies to ship a 5K display to consumers. My predication is that
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by milen 12y ago
Please note that I was not referring to technical complexity, rather cognitive / UX complexity. I've been creating software for many years, I'm well aware that feature requests that look quite simple on the surface can requir
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by milen 12y ago
When I was researching what we can use for payments, I stumbled upon Paddle and it looked exactly like what I wanted - looks very well done. I have two questions for you: 1) Who is the vendor of record? This is relevant to handling VAT and
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by milen 12y ago
The whole point is that nothing will change, as far as the consumer experience is concerned. You won't get bothered about upgrades or anything like this. All that would happen is you might see an "Upgrade" button in your list
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by milen 12y ago
While having the ability to return an app is necessary (most non-App Store places have 30/60-day money back guarantees), it's not a replacement for trials. For example, there might be 4-5 apps in the $30-50 range that I want to tr
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by milen 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback. 1. I totally agree with you on this point - the MAS is a fine store for something that costs $1-10 and maybe took only a few months to develop, maybe a hobby project. But building a serious business for apps that c
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by milen 12y ago
jessep is right - you cannot have a large amount of cheap and high quality software. Note that there are some very large difference between the software on iOS and Mac. On mobile system, the vast majority of apps are more akin to small cons

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