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by pornel 1717 days ago
And the arrogance and entitlement they've shown during Epic trial. Apple really believes that their OS and Store are godsend to developers, and this makes developers forever indebted to Apple for the 30% cut of everything happening through it.

I have to use mediocre Xcode, limited OS APIs, fight signing, sandboxing, lack of Vulcan, and capricious review. I need to keep rewriting churning APIs with "No Overview Available" instead of documentation. I'd rather not use any of this, but Apple keeps users hostage, because browser engines that would embarrass Safari are banned.
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imajoredinecon 1717 days ago
> Apple really believes that their OS and Store are godsend to developers,

Or, at least, their lawyers have decided that is the line of argument likeliest to lead to a victory.

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ksec 1717 days ago
Having followed Apple very closely for more than two decade and tried very hard to convince myself that was the case, their PR and Marketing are simply very aligned on this issue. Especially after Katie Cotton stepped down.
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