The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.
Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.
It’s not that people can’t make their own decisions, of course. Rather, it’s that there used to be very strong cohesion, a clear set of shared values. People would implicitly work towards the same goals; push in the same direction.
Now, the community both can, and has to, self-organize much more.
I think those that are financially able should leave the Apple community altogether.
ASOP based de-googled Android is a bit janky but getting away from the big tech corruption is worth it.
Big tech has proven itself far too willing to comply with the destruction of the world. It was becoming obvious with the refusal to comply with common sense changes required by the EU DMA but now it is just blatantly obvious that they are not worth supporting.
If you can afford to (your ability to live doesn't depend on it) don't help Apple maintain their platform prestige anymore, they don't deserve the best apps, they don't deserve the loyalty.
Nathan Manceaux-Panot
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