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I wouldn’t fly so close to Apple if I have the choice. Apple could pivot at any moment - “New versions of Swift start at $99,99” /s

Haha, you may be a bit outdated. The sad part is you can go cheaper and still get a Mac. Thats why it feels like a scam - the price is so far from what you’re getting it’s borderline criminal.

This is starting to feel like a scam. I hope people know they can get a lot more for this amount of money.

> Vote with your wallet.

Apple is too big for that. Hard regulation is the only way out right now. Maybe breaking them up too.

~3 square kilometres is absurd amount of forest to be removed for something as silly as a data centre. I hope Google gets fined and made to restore the area.

> but when they're using the term seriously, they mean that the code doesn't get properly reviewed by a human

"vibecoded" is also a synonim for incomplete, messy, lacks cohesion, vision. In this case, I think OpenAI partially duplicates without superseding one of the CLIs with another (and same for their different chat modes... remember they had 3 not long ago).

Wait, wasn't codex the "openai cli"? Their product names are so confusing (chat, vs. work ?!).. almost like the whole thing is vibecoded.

> Android is right over there

Where? Apple and Google are a cosy cartel engineered to never let you out.

I'm ok for Apple to allow (or be forced to allow) users to install alternative operating systems. We all use iOS not because it's great but because there is no other choice.

Of course, this will never happen, it's Apple... they can't even spell competition let alone "libre".

> I will stop using your app long before I'll install another app store.

m'okay bye.

Seriously, what are you trying to accomplish by saying this? Do you think you or app developers have any leverage with Apple? A corp that's the size of several countries?

We need choices and alternative options.

> I won't be surprised to see Apple using that for all the loophole its worth.

That has already happened on several occasions (Apple refusing notarisation, since you still need to be a member of their Developer Program thus subject to their ToS and all the crazy in it).

Hopefully, the next revision of EU's DMA and equivalent in other countries will close the loop hole.

Or maybe... John Ternus would wake up one day and decide to be a better human being and just fix this globally for everyone.

> It's terrible news for anyone who has some responsibility for the security of environments in which these devices are used.

On the contrary, it allows app and payment security to be better than what Apple offers.

Side*note: I really hope we can move away from the term "sideloading" which makes it sound like we're doing something on the down low.

Installing something is a perfectly normal operation - it's the App Store that's the special case :).

That’s good news for people who enjoy the freedom of using the device they own in the way they want.

Having (alt store) presence in Australia, Brazil, EU and Japan is in fact more than enough for many indies - one can even begin to imagine ignoring the US as a region.

When you're a gatekeeper / the phone company like Apple, the expectation is that as a general purpose device, you will adhere to at least some level of quality... simply because users have no alternative.

By constantly enforcing their walled garden and making it harder to use alternatives, Apple assumes the responsibility for the quality of their software. If they can't deliver, they should make it easy to pick and choose alternatives.