Technology

59168 readers

2113 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

406

Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)

submitted 8 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

150 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/10062367

Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[+] BorgDrone@lemmy.one -17 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I said small, synonyms hobby, FOSS. It is an obstacle to be forced to pay money to Apple for the 'privelidge' of being able to install it on their devices.

It’s $100, basically a symbolic amount.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Ah fantastic, can you give me $100? It's basically nothing, a symbolic amount.

Signed, a disabled and unable to work guy who enjoys IT and programing

[+] BorgDrone@lemmy.one -8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Signed, a disabled and unable to work guy who enjoys IT and programing

You don’t need to pay to develop an app, you only need to pay to put it in the store.

So develop your app. If it’s any good, pay the $100, sell it in the store and it’ll pay for itself. It may even make you a little profit. If it’s not good enough for that, why does it need to be in the store?

[–] ITPaw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some capabilities actually need a paid developer account even if you don’t plan to put the app on the store.

The Capability library shows only the capabilities available to the target type and your program membership. If you are not a member of the Apple Developer Program, the capabilities you can add are limited.

https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev88ff319e7

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some capabilities actually need a paid developer account even if you don’t plan to put the app on the store.

Sure, but that is for capabilities where it makes sense. For example if your app wants to use iCloud.

[–] ITPaw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Last time I checked that also affected nfc (I don’t mean Apple Pay, but plain nfc)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (9 replies)