It is not your right to reach all those people.
> No one benefits from this current situation except Apple.
This isn't true. See top comment, but all the FAANGs and their smaller siblings benefit in the exact same way.
The problem is systemic, and it starts with lobbying and disparity of legal standing between corporations and individuals.
People with more users have more word of mouth network effects.
Thats not much of a choice.
Either participate, or be locked out and lag behind the competitors.
The problem here is that Apple is both the platform and the distribution network, when we know very well, computers work just fine with a distribution of power its pretty silly to argue anything counter to that.
Id love to see mac users round here survive on mac os with nothing but the app store.
Good luck without npm, homebrew, wget, or any other convenient way to install software.
> Id love to see mac users round here survive on mac os with nothing but the app store.
You're moving the goalposts here... Anyone can publish outside the App Store, I thought this was a conversation about publishing ON the Apple Store?
Not on iOS they can't. Which is the entire point.
> Reaching people is not your right.
No... but a competitive market is in everyone (except the monopolist/oligopolist's) interest. Our entire economic model is based on the premise that markets are competitive. Thus in situation like this where a big player in a significant market is being anti-competitive, it is more than reasonable to complain about it.
