winston2010

As a Flash Developer at the time, it was a shock that Apple decided not to support Flash at the height of its popularity. But looking back, Flash was getting bloated and complex to support on various platforms. We've tried a few un-official hacks and that port Flash on iOS, the performance were horrible. I'm glad I've decided to move away from Flash development back in 2010.

It was probably an accident. When Home Depot switched to a new POS terminal after THE breach, I was able to use Apple Pay for several days, I was very excited. Then they turned it off.

I knew this is going on for years, but new developers are stilled shocked by this policy.

As a developer, I don't have a problem with Apple taking 30%, or even not allowing a link to external payment web page.  But not able to mention ANYTHING ANYWHERE in-app is just ridiculous.  

It just creates unnecessary hassle for the developers and the users. We were forced send out emails to our users about a premium tier of services.

"I just do not buy the claim that it is impossible", wow, another government servant skipped math class in college. Let me get it straight, you just do not buy the claim that it is impossible to make 1 + 1 = 3? Maybe we can copy what the Chinese government did: require every company submit a copy of their digital keys to the government.

Epic wanted its own App Store to sell to gamers directly, but did not want to build its own console or build its own phone.  Epic did not have problems with PlayStation, XBox, or Switch, but have problem with Apple and Google.

It's nothing but a publicity stunt for Epic.  It could learn something from Amazon:  Amazon negotiated a deal to sell Apple TV in exchange to have Prime Video app in App Store that competes with Apple TV+.

There could be a very simple reason:  cost.

It costs consumers nothing to use Apple Pay.  It may cost the merchant almost nothing for each transactions.  But if JCPenny switched to a 3rd party payment processors that either don't have ApplePay as part of their offerings, or offers ApplePay as a costly add-on.  Maybe Apple Pay will not be ready for another 6 months for this new vendor (OmniPayments) but JCPenny don't want people know about the switch.

That is too bad. I'm using Slack on my Apple Watch everyday. I've often getting pulled into meetings the last minute, and Slack on the Apple watch really helps people tracking me down. Oh well.

30 years working for a single company is a long time.  I'm sure Ive wants to do projects other than design for electronics, computers, or even corporate campuses.  The world is bigger than just one company, even if it was Apple.

Also the real story behind it was Tencent, the Chinese parent company wanted use WeChat Pay for payments.   To use WeChat Pay, you have to have money in a Chinese bank!

I suspect Microsoft purposely aimed low...  because it was competing with Chromebook and did not want to cannibalize Intel laptop sales.