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  • You really do not, here is why in no particular order:

    • When Texas does, other red states will follow.
    • Once that happens, forget human rights for anyone other than white men. Arrests/executions of trans folks, for example, will be a thing.
    • Blue folks in the red area will be trapped and unable to get back home.
    • War will break out, millions if lives will be lost.
    • Don’t count on the military. Much of it id in red states and many members of the military are republicans.

    Less likely, but far worse scenario could happen in addition to the above: Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, and other countries take advantage and attack parts of europe and possibly parts of the US. The US is a large part of NATO, so NATO will struggle to respond to the combined threat.

    I understand wanting to see it happen, but much of what I said is very likely to play out if TX follows through.

    You don’t need to believe me, but just think it through.


  • No, it is completely misleading because:

    1. this change will not impact a single developer outside the EU.

    2. Any developer not using a third party app store will also not be affected.

    3. You can still build free apps and literally nothing changes assuming you use Apple’s app store.

    Like I said, it is a shit policy, but for nearly all developers nothing changes.

    The video’s thumbnail said Apple is killing free apps. That is a complete lie. There is not an ounce of truth to it.




  • eek2121@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldApple's New Fees Will Kill Free Apps
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    5 months ago

    Such a clickbait-y headline I am not going to watch it.

    Free apps aren’t changing in anyway.

    The tl;dr is that for developers using the app store, nothing changes. Developers wishing to not use the app store have to agree to a new fee structure.

    Apple, as expected, intends to make up for lost profits by charging more money.

    If you are outside the EU none of this matters to you.

    Note that I am not disagreeing with the sentiment , but rather I am disagreeing with the clickbait headline.








  • That was one of the reasons they killed the api: to support ad growth. Unfortunately they failed to realize the combination of ad-blocking browsers and users just quitting the site from losing client access means they were never going to hit pre-IPO revenue targets.

    Had they instead focused on affordable API pricing and driving subscriber revenues up, they would have exceeded revenue targets.

    source: I was in a somewhat similar position (not quite the same, no third party client), but chose different and found myself making more subscription revenue than ad revenue thanks to a viewer base more than happy to pay more.