• Dodecahedron December@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes when people put their hard work into building an app for free, they don’t also want to pay $99 a year so that some bullshit company can profit off of the app developers hard work.

    iOS developers are REQUIRED to own a mac and are REQUIRED to pay apple $99 a year. That means it is more costly to develop open source for iOS or any apple product. That’s why apple is terrible.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Update –

    Ok, I get it. I shouldn’t have mentioned this post was duplicated in multiple communities at the same time. Sorry.

    Original Post –

    This question was already asked and answered on !foss@beehaw.org

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People say it’s the price (to develop), but it’s not IMO. It’s the community. Lots of developers use iOS (in the US), but in my experience, power users who develop FOSS in their free time have a high propensity to be Android users. There’s just so much more freedom in the platform.

    Add this to the fact that outside of the US Android is more popular as the device costs are lower and there is less blind brand loyalty due to that, so developers in those countries focus on the platforms they use.

    I believe the latter was the case with the current FOSS weather app I use (Breezy Weather).

    Update: This is personal experience, but I’ve never met a free-time FOSS app creator (or contributer) that didn’t develop for the device they use. And I’ve met a lot of them.

    Final edit: Weather apps may be biased with age. With React Native and Flutter taking over new apps, platforn agnostic apps may slowly go away over time. But which FOSS dev wants to build a new weather app when there are so many (for Android) already?