Reading through Apple’s motion to pause the external purchase ruling. A quick comment on this part:

A federal court cannot force Apple to permanently give away free access to its products and services, including intellectual property.

No one said that. Developers have been paying $99/year for this privilege since the beginning of the App Store.

Apple lawyers can spin this however they want. It will always come back to this: it’s absurd to take a cut of developer revenue that is not processed by Apple just for adding a website link in an app.

@manton and yet you still support Apple first when making apps and software. Where’s the love this way? I don’t have a mac, never will.

@manton I’ll agree with that. I use the web platform exclusively as I have minimized my mobile phone to a brick essentially with minimal apps. But I would make exceptions for good open source apps I can trust to update my website directly :)

@manton Web is something I use a lot but I still use macOS and iOS apps. Web won’t allow me to change accounts without logging out and logging back in (which can be cumbersome), so I find the apps more useful for posting and the web for site configuration. I hope apps don’t go away. There’s something about the simplicity and beauty of micro.blog that, to me, feels like Apple of yore.

@newdawn Thanks! The apps aren’t going anywhere. Also good point about the web with multiple accounts, I’d love to add that.