• TCB13@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yes, and why isn’t he publishing Delta to the App Store then? He’s clearly leveraging Delta to popularize his AltStore. I’m using “greedy” in a sense that he wants to gain something (that may or may not be monetary) by leaving Delta to be an AltStore exclusive.

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        7 months ago

        The linked toot states for publish on the altstore, which is not the App Store. Is there a different statement elsewhere stating otherwise?

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            7 months ago

            So does altstore. With the core technology fees and application requirements, it is much much higher than the 99/yr developer fee.

            Also that’s besides the point. I’m trying to learn if the developer said they’d publish on the App Store, not the AltStore.

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              I mean it’s not beside the point if the reason for not publishing on the App Store was money.

              I had no idea about Altstore going in, but looking into it it’s all done over Patreon, and I can’t find reference to any fees you mention. The most expensive Patreon tier for them is $8.50 per month, or $102 per year, however $3 (at an early bird rate) or $36 per year is enough to allow you to use 3rd party hosts for your app.

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                https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee

                Also worth noting, distribution on third party App Store does not exempt developers from the developer program fee — Developers must sign a separate agreement to opt into the new business terms.

                So, not only they are still responsible for the $99/yr fee, they’d need to sign a new agreement to opt into the new business terms, which has a separate additional fee schedule attached.

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              Also that’s besides the point. I’m trying to learn if the developer said they’d publish on the App Store, not the AltStore.

              From what I see his fediverse accounts it doesn’t seem like it… there are multiple people asking him to publish on the App Store and he seems to be conveniently ignoring all of them.

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            I’ve seen that. Thanks! Now if only they’d enable it for Europe instead of forcing people to use their AltStore, which ends up costing them more, AND costing everyone else more.

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        7 months ago

        Read his post again: “Delta has been **APPROVED for distribution with @altstore **”. There’s no App Store here.

        I believe you may have missed that apps distributed using alternative stores still need to be summited and approved by Apple.