PieFed chez MarudWhy does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
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I thought that you had to pay a fee every year, even for free apps. Something around 100$. Compared to a website, I think that for hosting a static file in a CDN it's already pretty expensive for most free apps developers.
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Delete the Apple App Store and install a third party replacement, the way god/EU Intended.
See I bet you think that would make things better, don’t you?
It won’t. It will make them so much worse.
Unless the EU (government) runs it, you’re going to get the world’s shadiest App Store or Sores possible.
“Just don’t use the shady ones then.”
That’s great until:
“That doesn’t happen on android!”
It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.
I hope you like signing up with all your personal data and credit card information on app stores that make Apple look like saints, because that’s where this is headed, and sadly you’ll drag me with you.
Because again this hypothetical thing you bought might be a family member buying it, so it won’t even be up to you at that point.
This is what I see happening in the future.
The way to avoid it is to get rid of app stores completely, and have users download and install apps one by one. Like that’s going to happen.
Lmao, this is hysterical nonsense.
Hey everyone on Windows, is your machine filled with thousands of shady app stores because you have the ability to install Steam? No? What a shocker! Who could have predicted!
Or you can just use f-droid and research in advance if the application you need is on on f-droid and let that influence your purchasing decisions.
It will absolutely happen with Apple, because there’s so much money that will be up for grabs.
Yeah sure because there are no expensive Android phones.