I love the idea, and thanks for doing this. I would like to create free apps too just for the heck of it but one of the biggest issues I find with creating free app store apps is that, regardless of whether you are charging money or not, you need to keep feeding Apple $100 per year, which is excruciating, especially for countries where the developer population is much higher and the income disparity is high. Since the Play Store only charges 25$ ish and one time, it is much more feasible to do it on the Play Store, hence the availability of such apps is more on Play Store.

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jpablo 19 hours ago | parent [-]

The $100 is per year.

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OptionOfT 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is still disgusting. There is no need for that fee to be there, because remember, it sits on top of the purchase of at least $1,500 (a decent Mac).

I tried to see if I could make improvements to Immich. No can do, as half of their entitlements require a team account (and even then begging Apple to get the entitlements).

Now, they do offer a private account, so I spent time removing those entitlements. Guess what? Starting over 3 times and you're hit with a 'you can only sign 10 apps / week'.

Why do apps built for my iPhone, which I explicitly need to put in Developer mode, need to be signed by daddy Cook?

	▲	kiba 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apple can charge you that because they have a platform which is a monopoly. Granted, they did the work that built and maintain the platform, but at some point it's actually the countless developers who contribute value, not Apple.
	▲	sudo712 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		True. I completely forgot about that part. I absolutely love my windows PC, but I had to buy a mac so I can support cross platform

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sudo712 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah. sorry my brain was on auto pilot.