Nick Heer, Pixel Envy: Macworld: ‘Use Apple’s App Store at Your Own Risk’

Price calls the App Store “rotten” — is there any other word? — and says Apple should “give iPhone users the freedom to install from other places. Or just stop pretending the App Store monopoly is about anything other than revenue” if it cannot effectively police its wares. I imagine Apple would argue it enforces its rules all the time and sometimes things just get through.

I sense we’re nearing a boiling point on the App Store’s governance. I’m hoping for some radical change, challenging as it will be at its scale.

@jarrod Speaking of which, here’s @gruber’s advice:

> The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. […]
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> Apple should focus its developer relations on cultivating that motivation, and trust that in the end that will continue to prove lucrative for Apple itself. They should do whatever it takes to make their cut of App Store transactions feel like a beneficial bargain to developers, not an oppressive tax.

@jarrod and vibe-coded apps flooding the App Store won’t make things easier either.

@numericcitizen Indeed