There is no “safety in numbers” with Apple’s IAP demands — at least not until you're the size of Uber/Meta.

The entire market of podcast apps outside of Apple/Spotify is peanuts to Apple.

They’d crush us all without a second thought if they thought we weren't giving them every cent they *deserve* (in their view) for graciously enabling our businesses to exist (in their view) that provide zero value to their platform beyond fees we pay (in their view).

Tim Cook is great
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In the past 24 hours I've heard of four different developers who have been entirely locked out of their Apple Developer accounts for seemingly no reason whatsoever, with no help from support and no apparent way to escalate.

No idea what's going on, but this for sure does not seem good.

There’s talk about the EU targeting the US Tech sector in tariffs retaliation.

Super bad news for tech giants who did their best to show the EU how powerless they are to make them adhere to EU rules.

There was previously a lot of talk about the commission not wanting to antagonize Trump by fining Meta and Apple for malicious compliance to the gatekeeper regulations, but that might go both ways.

When compared to other forms of entertainment, I really don't feel that video games are expensive. Especially those which offer 100s of hours of playability.

I've played Animal Crossing New Horizons for 395 hours... a £49.99 game. That's about 13p an hour.

I've played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for 185 hours, another £49.99 game. That's 27p an hour.

Compare that to an average price, non-premier 2 hour movie rental from Apple TV £4.99. So, about £2.50 an hour.

#VideoGames

No company with their sense intact would yield their primary customer interface to today's Apple.
This is what happens when your reputation is that of a spiteful bully instead of sensible partner.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/26/2026-porsches-still-wont-have-next-gen-carplay/

if i imagine all of macOS redesigned from the ground up with the same user hostile thoughtlessness of the System Settings…

…maybe it really is the year of Linux on the desktop.

Delayed or not, Apple’s proposed Intents-based Apple Intelligence features require a ton of buy-in from developers for it to be of any real use, and the incentives really aren't there — donating your app's content and functionality to enrich Apple’s AI alone, bypassing your UI, UX, branding, metrics, et al, to be delivered in a content soup alongside your competitors.

A third party developer base that won’t even bother recompiling Netflix or YouTube for visionOS won’t care much for that