Over dinner I told my wife one of my tweets ended up in a court case against Apple. Her first reaction, without even knowing what it said: “Is Apple going to retaliate?!” So yeah, for almost 13 years of making a living on the App Store, we‘ve lived in fear of Apple.
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I know so many kind, amazing people at Apple that have been so helpful to me over the years. But I think it’s lost on Apple institutionally just how disfuncional it’s relationship with developers really is. How much we fear App Review. How much we fear speaking out.
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On an episode of the podcast, commented how Salesforce runs its developer platform as a “benevolent dictator”. That’s been rattling around in my head since the moment he said it. In contrast, Apple comes across a bit more… Machiavellian. castro.fm/episode/gFDVuR
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Sad part is, I still care. I still believe in the walled garden approach to the App Store. I still don’t begrudge Apple the ~$1M I’ve paid them in commissions. I just want to see them do right by developers and right by our mutual customers.
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2/ I’ve been making all of these arguments for years, so I’ll just hit the highlight reel… twitter.com/drbarnard/stat
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have you also had continuing fear like maybe thinking 'i should probably not have tweeted that,' or maybe even 'i think i should go delete it.'
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If there wasn't an 'Apple App Store', there would still be a way to install apps. Probably a handful of app stores. Much more flexibility for developers in what their apps can do. No fear of apps being arbitrarily blocked.
Much like when I used to sell on Palm OS...
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