I fell for Apple’s misleading numbers. It’s actually WAY WORSE. The $310k is MONTHLY.
— Theo - t3.gg (@t3dotgg) January 25, 2024
8 million installs would cost $3.7 MILLION https://t.co/sdC0HdZTw9
Apple gets upset about in app purchases, shoots itself instead of trying to create a reasonable solution
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Android chads we stay winning.
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I've been side loading APKs from indy dev sites since the Moto Droid X. I swear I had SNES9x on it too.
How many alt android markets are there now?
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They've mostly consolidated around Itch.io for games and F-Droid for foss software.
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Obamaphone greentexters must be ignored
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Only low int brainlets and americans use default messaging apps. But I repeat myself...
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What's it like being a slave to china
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Samsung and Google aren't Chinese but go off...
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Kill Apple. Behead Apple. Roundhouse kick an Apple in the face.
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The only conclusion I can draw from making software to run on Apple is that Apple hates 3rd party developers.
This is just another example.
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They absolutely fricking do. Don't they have a rule that you have to develop all apps with their software and only on a Mac device?
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Kind of. You need a Mac and their software to sign the app and submit it to the store, but you can do the actual developing on another OS.
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Literally fascism.
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MacOS throws an absolute shit fit if you don't go through their signing either. Apple literally show a prompt to users with only "Delete" or "Close" options when trying to open an unsigned app.
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Yeah but you can still run unsigned apps thru settings probably something (((apple))) had to add due to antitrust laws or some shit
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found the incel
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wait, I thought the EU was forcing them to allow alternate app stores?
how are they charging per install from an alternate app store? do you need to agree to apple's terms to list your app on a non-apple store?
sounds more like EU fumbled the legislation if so tbh
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Nah they only were forced to let apps bill users directly from within the app instead of through apple letting apple get a 30% cut. So now apple is just charging for installing apps.
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This is not about them circumventing EU legislation this is about the US epic court ruling.
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I wish our leaders had some balls and funded a European hardware platform. What's the point of having a market with 400M consumers if you can't manage to put out a smartphone locally .
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The EU burecrats have entirely drunk the climate change koolaid. Too much NIMBYism and red tape to even apply for planning to concept art a chip plant.
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explain in rdrama terms
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It's only for the first install per user it seems.
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But this is good for bizz, now candy crush will be forever n1 app since enter barrier will be unreal high
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apple is an american company why not just charge a flat $5 minimum for europoors to download an app
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