> Apple will make users think you're a hacker trying to trick them

Apple will make users know that there are loads of hackers trying to trick them. The threat is extremely real.

> 10,000 are gaslit into thinking you were trying to harm them

Gaslit? Again, many are absolutely trying to harm users. Pretending this is some fake threat is perverse.

As much as people like to complain about downloaded software having restrictions, or encouraging the developer to be verified by Apple, we had already entered a world where users were told to never, ever run any software not by one of the bigs. I mean, I've told relatives that, for good reason after they installed malware and other nonsense repeatedly. It sucks having to get an Apple account and sign your executable, but for any normal user outside of the foolish, that was the only way they were ever going to run your app.

And honestly, for the case given this should be a web app. People shouldn't be trusting some random executable by some random group.

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wtetzner 5 hours ago | parent [-]

How does paying $100 per year to sign your binary ensure it's not malicious?

	▲	llm_nerd 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn't ensure anything. But it does force an identity trail (you have to prove your identity), and more importantly allows Apple to have a rapid kill switch: If a developer uses their account to distribute malware, Apple revokes the cert and those apps will no longer run on user devices (as soon as the revocation hits). Should it be $100 per year? No, that is ridiculous and usurious.