Comment by sudo712
1 day ago
I love the idea, and thanks for doing this. I would like to create free apps too just for the heck of it but one of the biggest issues I find with creating free app store apps is that, regardless of whether you are charging money or not, you need to keep feeding Apple $100 per year, which is excruciating, especially for countries where the developer population is much higher and the income disparity is high. Since the Play Store only charges 25$ ish and one time, it is much more feasible to do it on the Play Store, hence the availability of such apps is more on Play Store.
The $100 is per year.
It is still disgusting. There is no need for that fee to be there, because remember, it sits on top of the purchase of at least $1,500 (a decent Mac).
I tried to see if I could make improvements to Immich. No can do, as half of their entitlements require a team account (and even then begging Apple to get the entitlements).
Now, they do offer a private account, so I spent time removing those entitlements. Guess what? Starting over 3 times and you're hit with a 'you can only sign 10 apps / week'.
Why do apps built for my iPhone, which I explicitly need to put in Developer mode, need to be signed by daddy Cook?
Apple can charge you that because they have a platform which is a monopoly.
Granted, they did the work that built and maintain the platform, but at some point it's actually the countless developers who contribute value, not Apple.
True. I completely forgot about that part. I absolutely love my windows PC, but I had to buy a mac so I can support cross platform
yeah. sorry my brain was on auto pilot.