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tabular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll put 100 on “this user needs their account to do things which in principle need not require an account”, please.
tja@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You need an apple developer account to publish apps on the app store
tabular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Normally I’d say that’s fine (the store hoster should decide what’s there) but it’s my understanding Apple actively opposite the existence of alternative app stores where it could be hosted.
Anecdotally Apple make it very hard to even post an app but that’s neither here nor there.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They can put it on another App Store in the EU, but only if it’s approved by apple and they pay apple 50 cents per download
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That sounds like par for the course in the US but the kind of thing that the EU would have a law against.