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by calsy 848 days ago
How do you self host an app? And if you can, how could you possibly reach the audience the size the app store offers?

Never publish anything on Apple's ecosystem as there no alternative... so don't publish at all is what you mean?

All these crazy ideas come from people who don't work in app development, clearly.
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jjav 848 days ago
> All these crazy ideas come from people who don't work in app development, clearly.

Since the dawn of computers, it has always been possible to write and publish software directly from the developer to the consumer. This is the normal state.

Apple has broken this on iOS with their model where they are the sole arbiter, gatekeeper and tax extractor, of every application.

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calsy 847 days ago
Apps for mobile devices! not personal computers. Self hosted PWA's are absolutely available to open on mobile.. and no one uses them.
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jjav 846 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418412
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10729287 847 days ago
... and they're working on breaking it on the personnal computer too. For security reasons, obviously.
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paulmd 847 days ago
No, they’re not. macOS is a fully-functional Unix environment, and apple has been as welcoming towards Asahi as they can be while staying officially 100% divorced from all activity related to it (Asahi has seen apple do releases with enabling work for the bootloader that had no possible purpose other than enabling third-party OS).
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jjav 847 days ago
> macOS is a fully-functional Unix environment

Out of the box it is not. As root I can't read or write files that the permissions say I can, among other problems. It is still possible to disable all this but they make it more and more difficult.

If I were to bet, I'd bet that the roadmap is to eventually make OSX be iOS, where you can't do anything except what apple specifically lets you do.

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jaimex2 845 days ago
> All these crazy ideas come from people who don't work in app development, clearly.

iOS releases. Yes, and by choice.

And if they keep at it with OSX I won't continue releasing to that either.

Call me crazy but I'm not the one writing sob stories on HN about how Apple cucked my app which seems to be a HN weekly.

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