It’s probably more likely that the developer goes the fantastical route. Make their app available on all Apple device platforms, while moving to a subscription-based model because that’s what allows for a sustainable business.
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Sideloading iOS Apps No Longer Possible on M1 Macs
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It’s probably more likely that the developer goes the fantastical route. Make their app available on all Apple device platforms, while moving to a subscription-based model because that’s what allows for a sustainable business.
Setting aside that this is utterly asinine, Apple doesn’t even receive apps’ source code. They cannot release source code that they do not have.
Edit: And if this was thrown into Apple Developer agreements, it’d lead to the collapse of the App Store, given that you are simply handing your source code to a potential competitor. That’s the kind of change that would get developers to walk off and move to the web. Fast.
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It’s a known fact that Apple visits this site. MacRumors has posted photos of apples IP address coming here all the time
Why does Instagram or Hulu care where you consume their content, so long as you keep doing so? Especially with regard to Hulu or Netflix, your desktop Mac has a bigger screen and better graphics hardware, so it seems to me that somebody consuming content on a desktop Mac has a greater incentive to buy a more expensive plan, and is thus a more valuable customer than a phone-only customer.
Sure. Do they browse the forums and does any actually helpful feedback make it to the right people to actually handle it? Almost universally, no.
So, what was the point of bringing the iOS apps to Mac if Apple doesn't allowing most of them?! Another marketing BS vs real implication. I guess it's matter of time the devs to bring their apps to Macs as well!?
Well it isn’t Apple not “allowing“ them, it is the developer that does not allow their own iOS/iPadOS software on macOS. Apple is encouraging all developers to officially support their software on all Apple platforms, but they also are making sure that they respect and enforce the developer community’s choices, because if they don’t the developers won’t be in Apple’s ecosystem very long.
Well that sucks doesn't it. Gotta compromise on the user experience if you want to use your own hardware how you want. Wouldn't it be something if Apple had just.. ya know left this feature in?
Exactly. Just complain to the dev.. not to apple that just enforced the dev’s choice to opt out.
Especially that this feature is a default opt-in.
I understand that now, Thank you for clarifying it. Wonder why devs won't want to bring their apps to MacOs then? Since that's the case.. As far as I know, Apple made the UI kit easier for devs to make one app for all Apple platforms.. so?! Still a bit confused on that
Coming to the site to read rumors sure, not necessarily the message boards. Even if they did, that doesn't necessarily mean they're taking suggestions from this message board.
Because officially making it an app for Macs means that average people will need to get their expected level of usage out of the app; and that you don't always get simply because the app sort of runs on a Mac.
In some cases it will just work, and in other cases it practically speaking will be quicker to start over coding a new app from scratch.
Meanwhile the company would have to deal with upset customers, train all their support staff to handle a whole new platform; and so on.
As a developer, my company’s app is marked as “iOS only”. The reason? It is not tested on MacOS, so we can’t guarantee that it works properly, and it’s an app that we won’t allow you to run if we can’t guarantee it works. And we believe users will have a Mac and a phone, and they will have expectations that these work together, which we can’t meet.
if you want to have a MacOS version, you either wait or talk to my boss and offer him a six digit pound amount not starting with a one or two.
if you want to have a MacOS version, you either wait or talk to my boss and offer him a six digit pound amount not starting with a one or two.
Do you expect answers explaining how to pirate apps?
My company has given Apple permission to make our app available on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Not on Macs.
So Apple has removed one of the main reasons to buy an M1, more apps, and continues to toss the ball back into Microsoft’s court when it comes to running Windows on the M1 which results in even fewer available apps. I was starting to regret my decision to go with an early 2020 Intel MacBook Air but am not any longer. I need a platform with more apps, not fewer.
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My app is untested MacOS. We don’t allow anyone to use untested software. We will soon turn off the ability to run on iOS 10 or 11 because it gets hard to test.
We’ll take that into account in the pricing of the app. “Personally responsible” means my salary needs to increase to take that into account. And you pay for that.
Just curious, what is your job? If you’re a hairdresser and my hair cut goes out of fashion in two years, are you going to pay a refund, out of your personal pocket?
I am puzzled by the outrage.
With Big Sur, Apple made iOS apps available on M1 Macs by default via the Mac App Store, though developers had the option of later disabling that option.
If developers wanted users to have access to said app, they would have kept that option in the first place, or worked on a Mac version of said app.
In other words, the people affected by this change are those who would have been using said apps in a manner not intended by their developers, and Apple is simply closing a loophole by preventing users from side loading those very same apps.
Normal users are not going to be impacted in any way.
What's the issue again?
Let’s think that through. Jason, who you replied to, seems to have every right to demand every penny back that he ever paid for his education. If he studied at a university, each of the professors owes him thousands. Plus all the money he’ll get from his school teachers.
You are not allowed to copy iOS apps in a way that is not described in Apple’s documentation or app developers’ help section.
I am not aware of any side-loading support documentation made available by Apple.
Using or duplicating software in a way not intended by the developer or the distributor is software piracy.