A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑

What are we doing here?

RE: https://explore.alt.store/@altstore/115979452416310673

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Clear indicator that Apple's DMA implementation never actually met its obligations under the DMA in the first place. Apple scared developers away from ever signing up to their poison pill Core Technology Fee terms, so alternative app stores simply have no apps to offer.

The pretense of avoiding 'political retaliation' from the US when the US is openly discussing invading and conquering EU member territory is utter nonsense. Fine Apple what they should be fined

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setapp-mobile-eu-app-store-closing-next-month/