Apple's new extortion regime to keep big app makers (opens in new tab)

(world.hey.com)

24 pointstheodorejb2y ago8 comments

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Zetobal2y ago· 4 in thread

I totally get corporate blogs but the hey.com one has only hot takes and rage filled articles. Do better, with your credentials you must have something more to say than "I hate...". Look at the complete history it's mindboggling. It's either product announcements or a roundhouse kick.

TheLoafOfBread2y ago

Apple bullying Hey is the reason why I have never released anything for iOS and waiting on some other solution, be it Chrome with actually working PWA + WebBLE or sideloading.

smt882y ago

Do you have anything substantial to say about this article in particular?

Hot takes aren't bad just because they're emotional. In this case, there's more than emotion. I hadn't considered these issues from this angle and learned something from it.

tommica2y ago

Well, hey.com is a blogging service, so the range depends on people using it. As for DHH, he does have some strong opinions, but there is more nuance in there than just "either product announcements or a roundhouse kick."

onnnon2y ago

That's his personal blog, not the business blog.

tommica2y ago· 1 in thread

> And let’s take Meta as a good example. Their Instagram app alone is used by over 300 million people in Europe. Let’s just say for easy math there’s 250 million of those in the EU. In order to distribute Instagram on, say, a new Microsoft iOS App Store, Meta would have to pay Apple $11,277,174 PER MONTH(!!!) as a “Core Technology Fee”. That’s $135 MILLION DOLLARS per year. Just for the privilege of putting Instagram into a competing store. No fee if they stay in Apple’s App Store exclusively.

I don't wanna live in a world designed by apple...

hulitu2y ago

> I don't wanna live in a world designed by apple...

Has Apple still a design department ? I know that they had one a long time ago, but now it seems they disbanded it. /s

dc1rjj2y ago

people still using Apple? o_O

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