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I have a funny feeling that the only thing developers are going to get out of these fights with Apple are a way to side load notarized apps on iOS/iPad OS, and improved support of PWA’s.  You’re not going to see third party App Stores or in app purchases unless a governmental court case forces it.

In addition, this may not necessarily mean the money has been “lost” by Apple. The penalty payment discussed in the article might be considered in future contracts with Samsung.

gatorguy said:

No idea how representative this is, but the claim made in the first post may not be entirely untrue:
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2019/09/sorry-mac-users-apple-doesnt-care-about-us-devs/

It’s an interesting time for software development. The time is coming to an end where you *won’t* have to pay a platform vendor for the rights to sign and certify your application isn’t garbage/malware.  As usual, Apple is ahead of the curve but Windows is on the same path, just at a slower rate. The irony the only true “free” platform to develop for will end up being Linux, and most game devs don’t want to develop for them in the first place. A conundrum indeed...

Yes, as much of an inconvenience getting rid of Flash might be, it’s needed. And the only way to fully get rid of it is to have browser vendors disable the support of their usage.

wizard69 said:

MacPro said:

I suspect Apple  may also have some thoughts on Hackintoshes in the near future.

There probably is a long game here.   I can’t see anything that this company is doing that is illegal if they own a copy of iOS.    I suspect that Apple wants to go after people running MacOS in VM’s but want to build up the legal ground work.  

Frankly modern hardware and virtual machines are technologies made in heaven for a developer and even advanced users.  We are at the tipping point where it is almost foolish not to have this capability especially when 24 thread hardware, 16+GB of RAM and other advancements mean there is few negatives to consider.     That is this year; by 2021 the average desktop could easily support 32 to 64 threads and 512 GB of RAM.  At that point a developer could run VM’s for Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows, BSD and more all at once.  

AMD expects to debut its AM5 socket this year which I would expect would offer the step increase in performance to deliver such hardware to the desktop at reasonable prices.  All they need is a successful transition to 5nm to offer cost effective machines like this on the desktop.    The thread ripper series is just a way to see the future of desktop machines.   

So yeah I suspect that Apple is being truly dark and evil here. They appear to want to stifle (some might say control) the evolution of computing technology.    The rather pathetic Mac Pro is something that they will try to protect when competing tech can offer twice the performance at 1/4 the price.  

The only company that legally owns a copy of iOS is Apple.  The rest of us using it are licensees under Apple's terms and conditions.  You can run a limited VM of iOS on any Mac using Xcode, using the built-in simulator.  They could care less about Hackintoshes.  The issue here is a company selling access to iOS for the purpose of discovering security vulnerabilities that they do not want to report back to Apple.

I have no idea where AMD thread rippers have anything to with Apple taking down a copyright and trademark infringer.  I read the post at least a dozen times, and it still doesn't make sense.  Apple has a great working relationship with AMD, and Apple is not trying to compete with them.