[theshrike79]

It's also 100% open source and GPLv3 Licensed: https://github.com/blinksh/blink

You can just clone the repo, build it yourself and use it 100% free as in beer and speech.

[eptcyka]

Due to the way apple restricts development on their platform, one has to recompile/reinstall homebrew software every 7 days for it to work, effectively killing FOSS development for people who don't own the bundle/app IDs. I once paid a 100$ to try and contribute support for NFC for an open source app, only to not be able to use my functionality without upstreaming it. Judging from this experience alone, it feels like Apple hates FOSS.

[mynameisvlad]

The point isn’t that it’s easy to do but that it’s fully doable for someone that doesn’t want to contribute the $20/year to development of the software.

[WesolyKubeczek]

Apple doesn’t precisely hate FOSS, but it loves its income sources and the sweet revenue coming from them. Obviously it will protect them, duh.

[eptcyka]

Yes, but for this reason alone I believe there is far less FOSS software on iOS.