top | item 32906399

(no title)

jklp | 3 years ago

Ahh yeah not at the moment. I intentionally only released on app stores as I didn't want to complicate my deployment, as well as host binaries / handle auto-updates. Signing is also a real pain and (in the case of Windows) quite expensive, and I'm unsure of the demand at the moment to warrant that.

Just out of curiosity, what's the aversion to app stores? I know for paid apps there's a large commission to Apple / Microsoft (I try to download direct when I can) though for free apps I'm a bit more forgiving.

discuss

order

webmobdev|3 years ago

Privacy mainly. And as a software developer, such app stores are insulting to us because it is used to extort money from us for the "privilege" of developing software for their platform, when they should be the one appreciative of the fact that every new software from us increases the value of their platform. As a user too, I find this very unethical of them as it unnecessarily increases the cost of buying softwares (why should I pay Apple or Microsoft or Google an extra 20 to 50% for buying a software made by you?). I have no qualms in saying that we software developers are fools for letting them take advantage of us and our clients / users.