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by josephpmay 2460 days ago
It wouldn't break functionality for developers releasing apps in the app store, but it would break functionality for kid/teen developers and coding classes and people teaching themselves to code, which Apple cares a lot more about than people putting a Gameboy emulator on their phones
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I'm pretty sure Apple's position towards kids learning to code is "use the swift playground thingy from the app store"
I wouldn't be AT ALL surprised if Apple decides to break the kid/teen developers over this. People like the AltStore developer are why we can't have nice things.
AltStore is a nice thing, and blocking it would be apple removing nice things. Why are you shifting the blame to a developer?
But people like you are why I'm happy those like the AltStore dev exists and challenge the status quo!