From the perspective of FOSS developer:
I simply don’t want to pay €100 every single year to Tim Apple to make a free hobby app.
Android has more ways to distribute, and the “official” way is one time €25 fee and that’s it.
Person behind Arctius for lemmy :) My other account: delirium@lemm.ee
I like cats and chickens.
From the perspective of FOSS developer:
I simply don’t want to pay €100 every single year to Tim Apple to make a free hobby app.
Android has more ways to distribute, and the “official” way is one time €25 fee and that’s it.
If I wanted to use the touchscreen, I’d rather get a tablet or use my phone. I would like to see the capability to open actual apps, not just chrome. In this case, even ipad is more capable than chromebooks because it can actually run lots of stuff, even video editing software.
are you really trying to say that chromebook can do more than m1 macbook lol
please show me an example of working in blender with chromebook
I guess (in their mind) their laptops are “premium” product and making a cheap one will lead to brand damage.
Plus, I remember how bad was previous 12 inch macbook, people will probably be very catious about it (if they ever make one)
What? Apple is still releasing good laptops, m1 makbook air was unmatched for its price for like 2+ years and is still a machine that can last 6-10 hours under workload
No, I’m just genuinely interested, that’s it. No negativity.
How many times did internet petitions actually changed something
or else they will block it in norway
More than that, I never saw political or controversial “influencer” content on YouTube at all. It’s mostly tech reviews, memes, travel and photography videos, just exactly what I watch.
Algorithms are so good these days it’s kinda funny to see someone being angry about being offered to watch the same stuff they usually watch
Not like you can’t access their community anymore
If your job lost 70% of its customers, I bet you’d be begging your boss to raise prices to avoid a 70% pay cut.
doing so will result in losing the remaining 30%
I think that asking to be paid for your work is totally fine (albeit I myself made my lemmy app completely free and opensource, simply because its just my hobby project), but its a rather different story when you provide app for open source, nonprofit venture-free platform and start to inject ads and trackers into it. Its goes against the entire idea of free decentralised platform and makes it closer to profit-focused app like reddit/threads/etc imo
contains adds
contains in-app purchases
collects data
shares data with 3d party orgs
Nothing against sync, but this is not what I’d expect from lemmy app tbh. There’s a lot of free open source options that don’t sell your data.
Asking to be paid for your job is OK, but injecting ads in ad-free opensource service, selling user data? This is just reddit-app-moment in my opinion
There’s a lot of free open source alternatives :)
Thank you :)
Fennec’s dev here: changed name for Fennec to Arctius to stop the confusion.
No, fennec the android lemmy app by me. I wasn’t aware of browser when I chose that name and so far no better ideas were suggested, so we’re going by fennec rn
For Android: fennec does this.
Spoilers: I’m this app’s developer :)
Isn’t its everywhere in the world right now? Economic system is rigged towards the elites and thats what we have to deal with
Yes its one time for android, if you’re earning money with ads or purchases, google will take 1/3 of that amount, then you will have to figure out taxes on your own and there’s also some special policies for selling online goods in India, but if you’re just making apps - its one time fee to be able to upload them to google play store, or you can just distribute with froid/github for free, which is a great route as well