Apple can go to hell, their 30% fee is prohibitive.

If Jobs was still here, he would have fired all the fat management.

shame on you Apple, you are acting like M$!

Why would jobs of all people have an issue with that?

	▲	benoau 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		He loved their policy. He wrote it. > “I think this is all pretty simple — iBooks is going to be the only bookstore on iOS devices. We need to hold our heads high. One can read books bought elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for many things.” https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348130/apple-documents-...

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Barrin92 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>shame on you Apple, you are acting like M$!

Microsoft, for all their faults, gave us an actual operating system that people could build and distribute executables on as they saw fit with no restrictions, and they did it despite the fact that they owned almost the entire personal computing space.

Imagine Microsoft had charged everyone who distributed a Windows executable 30%, they'd have made trillions by now. Bill Gates said once that Microsoft has captured maybe 1% of the value that people have created on top of their software because they don't insert themselves between what users do with each other and I do think they actually deserve some props for that

	▲	whstl 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nah. Fuck Apple but the only reason Microsoft isn't doing the same thing Apple does with iOS is because they don't have a mobile operating system anymore. Even on Windows, Microsoft has very similar notarization requirements as Apple. Microsoft requires either an ~400-500$/year EV cert (if you don't want to involve Azure), or more recently a $10/month subscription to Azure, which is almost the same as Apple's $99/year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182546