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2026-03-10 20:19 UTC
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@Bonje@lemmy.world 2026-03-10 20:43
If people want your app on ios then set up a donnorbox or something.
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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-03-10 21:31
If they are charging that much they clearly don’t want my app
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@abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-10 22:06
Luckily google would never do the same to android /s keepandroidopen.org
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@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2026-03-10 22:17
more than that; you need to build on a ios machine, so every few years you have to buy a mac mini or some shit just to run xcode to compile the app. at least the last time I released an app across both stores that’s where we were (8 years ago).
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@Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-11 02:47
And this is why iOS gets progressive web apps from me. It isn’t that I can’t afford $100, it’s more fuck Apple for demanding tribute from my work.
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@HereIAm@lemmy.world 2026-03-11 11:30
So that's why there weren't any open source apps on iOS. When I started my degoogling journey I got an iPhone to try out the grass on the other side. But i was sorely disappointed by both the low quality of the apps and the lack of open source alternatives.
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@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-12 09:15
I mean, to some extent: waydroid actually works quite well, if you don't mind their security issues, a few apps also work with android translation layer. My main troubles are actually with virtual keyboards: there's nothing as good as heliboard so far, although the new plasma keyboard with custom layouts is _usable_
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@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-12 21:37
It's more like a chroot, not exactly emulation. The point, at least for me, used to be that some apps for android have better ux than their Linux counterparts (mostly newpipe vs freetube and antennapod vs kasts), but since both of those work reasonably well in ATL, I don't really use it much now. Compared to lineage, I quite like being able to run desktop software as well; nix is a godsend here, since they compile many packages for arm64 as well as x86. Although, to be fair, I haven't tried running nixos in chroot alongside android; mb a viable option as well