The App Store Addiction | Coder Radio 554

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We knew they'd be petulant, but even our expectations were higher than this. We dig into how Apple dunked on devs after last week's show, yet another Microsoft hack, and more.

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• Apple's Big Brother Now - dominickm.com — Getting right down to brass App Store tax. You’re almost certainly not saving any money. Apple is only taking three-percent off their cut even if you process the payment via another processor. Payment processors charging what they tend, that means you will likely save no money whatsoever; this is increasingly apparent once you begin to consider the implementation cost of setting up third-party payment processing and complying with the rest of Apple’s onerous terms.
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• These Third-Party Apps Are Optimized For Apple Vision Pro So Far - MacRumors — So far, over 250 apps with native support for visionOS have been submitted to Apple, according to a source.
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