<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> IAP/linking.. yup, absolutely, but also.. xcode</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Our company and all our devs stopped any work on iOS apps due to hair pulling painful inconsistency and lack of care from Apple. We also nuked our dev accounts. Happier bunnies. Back to private work.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Maybe I&#39;m romanticizing, yeah, but just had to wait about a minute for what was morally a 1 kB static page, but that was so loaded down with SPA interactivity that it took forever.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@xgranade" class="u-url mention">@<span>xgranade</span></a></span> is it? i vividly remember 56k modems and they sure were slower (leaving aside whether the current state is great or not)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pdx.social/@louie" class="u-url mention">@<span>louie</span></a></span> fully agree</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@schwa" class="u-url mention">@<span>schwa</span></a></span> But if I’m a PM and I’m trying to get buy-in to dedicate time/any resources to a new platform pre-launch, it used to be understood that the bare minimum could go to Apple. The users are rich. Even a small number, just do the QA and monitor some cycles. Assess later to see if we need to go native. Buy some test devices for the team. But if this is also a company that is your competitor and they are actively trying to fuck you to your face? Yeah, as a PM, my VP is going to be less keen 2/2.</p>

<p>I used to use the web on a 56k modem... how is shit *slower* to load now, on symmetric gigabit internet?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@schwa" class="u-url mention">@<span>schwa</span></a></span> yeah, look I’ve always said if the users are there the corps will show up. But this is a perfect storm. It is similar to when Netflix just told Apple to get fucked and put a link to their homepage in the app anyway when they removed IAP. Because Netflix knew it had as much power as Apple did. If Apple kicked Netflix from the App Store, they’d be hurt just as badly as Netflix. 1/2</p>

<p>I want to be clear this isn’t the only or even a primary reason AVP is an app dead zone. The price, utility and the positioning of a dev kit as a mass market product are massive reasons why too. But it is **A** reason, and as I said in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell" class="u-url mention">@<span>jsnell</span></a></span>’s annual report card, this is a consequence of burning your developer goodwill. I’ve seen how hard it is to win devs back. That’s been my job before. That’s part of my job now. And no company is immune forever.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/114429967722085038" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@film_girl/114</span><span class="invisible">429967722085038</span></a></p>