@stroughtonsmith You don't have to build for Apple Platforms. No one is forcing you to! #Choice

@stroughtonsmith as a distant and unknown follower, I’ve definitely felt the tone of your posts towards Apple change, which is a real shame, can you pinpoint when things changed for you? Or just pile on of small cuts?

And of course, is there an alternative platform for you?

@stroughtonsmith I’ll be sticking with my Apple devices, but I’m not sure what I’m gonna do when it’s time to upgrade my iPad for example. I’m crossing my fingers that by then, the DMA might actually have made things better.

@stroughtonsmith I feel the same as you as an Apple Developer. I had over 20+ apps on the store at one point in time, but now I can't even be bothered to update the ones I have. After this year's WWDC, I am firmly in the camp of writing future apps in something like Flutter so that I can move on to a different platform if need be ...

@andyflisher Apple vs Epic

@stroughtonsmith @andyflisher
Interesting! I see Epic as a greedy & stingy bully and Apple just wanting to be left alone by them

@danielkasaj @andyflisher then you've listened to far too much Apple PR. Apple's status quo was/is (in the EU, at least) illegal

@stroughtonsmith @andyflisher but only because the bully brought mommy to lay down the law…?

@danielkasaj @andyflisher no, pre-existing law. And that was brought up by Spotify's complaint, not Epic

@stroughtonsmith ah, ok, yeah I can see how that leaves a sour taste - I’m in the EU so we have xtra legal shenanigans, none of these parties come out of it well - frustration for me is Apple could have seen all this coming and handled it on their own terms

@f @stroughtonsmith try .NET mobile + MvvmCross: works on everything with native UIs and shared app logic

(Though making a separate UI for every platform is a bit tough compared to write-once Flutter, React Native or MAUI)