| ▲ | Ask HN: Can we just call them "Harness Gloves"?..and an App Store model? | |||||||
| 3 points by lowoxidizer 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ||||||||
How about the harness on the harness is forevermore just a "Harness Glove"? How about Anthropic and Open AI start app stores for projects built on top of their SDKs? Prop up innovation, vet for subscription abuse, and make some money for more compute. Notarization and Developer IDs would also be a nice touch and feel good for outside App Store distro. Just do it like Apple, but 30% is kinda high. | ||||||||
| ▲ | benoau 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
They can't because smartphones are almost entirely closed to this idea and that's the most important device for consumer adoption. Although Android is slightly more open there are, after ~17 years, zero mainstream Play Store alternatives or mainstream popular sideloaded apps in most countries, while iPhone is entirely closed to this in the vast majority of countries. Best they could do is have each app individually submitted to these stores or streamed, either way they need to use the platform in-app purchases mechanism and on Google Play I believe they have to pay a large fee on third party payments, while Apple prepares their Supreme Court arguments that they should have an even larger one. | ||||||||
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