To underscore how important sideloading or marketplaces are to me, I would be willing to set up a subsidiary in the EU, pay EU taxes, and have custom app code that runs just in the EU in order to get it. It’s not only about the 30%. It’s independence.
@manton I'd gladly give you my domicile to set that subsidiary up. We'd be honored to have you. Welcome to the Basque Country!
@manton It’s the chains that Apple puts us all in that has always disturbed me the most. App Review done right with Apple and developers working towards the same goal of serving the end user and with mutual respect would go a long way towards making me feel more ambivalent and less angry, but I became an indie twenty something years ago to be.. independent and not a content provider for Apple.
@pratik Maybe easier, but I like iOS and there's no reason to abandon it, especially since we've embraced cross-platform development. That was the shift we made a couple years ago.
@manton Ah! I see. You may be aware of Brexit when the UK escaped the chains of the EU so we could have our independence. Of course today that can be seen for what it always was - a nonsensical appeal to some idealised past that never really existed. Make Apps Great Again. There is an adage: the Stone Age did not end for a lack of stones. Of course as most people moved on to another way of doing things there were some who continued the old ways; knapping the flints just as their fathers had done before them. The young people just shrugged and went to the knapp store as they had always done.
