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| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-10-05, 05:21 (revision 1)
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Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 499 days Last view: 14 days |
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2019/09/sorry-mac-users-apple-doesnt-care-about-us-devs/ Apple being Apple, wants people to pay an annual fee to be able to Notarize their software before it can be sold on the Apple store and other dumb stuff like removal of 32bit support. AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-10-05, 05:47
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 Post: #733 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 8 hours |
Apple's demanded the annual fee for a while on pocket computers and tablet computers. They're just extending that out to desktop and laptop systems now. (I've never been clear if the annual fee is only required to sign and upload stuff, or if your software disappears from their storefront when you stop paying the ransom.) --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-10-05, 12:26
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 Post: #570 of 1315 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 58 days Last view: 18 hours |
I thought crApple only kept selling their "not really personal computers" as they're the only licensed devices where you can make "apps" for their overpriced cellphones. You're not supposed to make applications targeting those designer computers! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| hunterk |
Posted on 19-10-05, 14:19
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Post: #46 of 60
Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1642 days Last view: 1563 days |
Making people pay a fee and crypto-sign applications before they can be included in a store is normal and fine, IMO. The problem comes in when they make it harder and harder to load applications from other sources. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-10-05, 22:46
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Post: #734 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 8 hours |
Posted by hunterkA one-time fee, sure, I guess. An annual fee, well, you better take a 0% slice of their actual sales instead of a third. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| kode54 |
Posted on 19-11-13, 05:21
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Yeah, they’ve always required the fee for crypto signing your apps, even when distributing outside the App Store. Not a requirement to get your software on the platform at all, just a measure to make your users feel safer, or something like that. Notarization just means you upload your Developer ID signed software to Apple for malware scanning before they’ll co-sign your stuff. It takes about two minutes or so to scan my Cog binaries before they give me the go-ahead. Then you can export the stapled binaries and distribute them to your users, same as usual. Note I’m no longer able to afford my own paid developer license, I ride on the coattails of my friend developers at Resolute Limited, the company that is bringing us foobar2000 Mobile. Busy bees at Apple, I find that notarization breaks every time they blacklist and force an upgrade of Xcode. |
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