[forty]

That's a good remark. As my sibling said, backend and web dev.

But indeed it always struck me that some developpers decided to become Apple developpers and sacrifice 30% of everything they ever produce to Apple.

I would argue that it might a bit different though, because when doing iOS development it's possible that you don't lose you core skill, which is building software, and that you can switch to another platform with relative ease. What I think might happen with LLM is that people will lose the core skill (maybe not for the generation who did do LLM-less development, but some devs might eventually not ever know other ways to work, and will become digital vassals of whatever service managed to kill all others)

[yunohn]

Android also charges a fee for Play Store distribution, as do most platforms - not just mobile app ones. The cost of doing business on a platform does not mean no one should do it - like literally all other businesses.

[unsupp0rted]

> and sacrifice 30% of everything they ever produce to Apple

In exchange for 500% more paid users

[forty]

The users would exist even if Apple did not exist wouldn't they?

[unsupp0rted]

No, they wouldn’t.

Apple largely makes paying users exist that otherwise wouldn’t be there.

[forty]

Sorry, I cannot argue with that.