Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

At the same time, you can just send people APKs or publish to F-Droid.

Apple allows none of that. As a hobbyist I find Google to be much more reasonable, paying 25$ once vs 100$ a year for a dev account.

Getting my Apple dev account was such a horrible process, I had to talk to at least 6 people and it took months.

I'll just pay Cook's ransom, guess I have motivation to develop something new if only to justify the dev fee.



> At the same time, you can just send people APKs or publish to F-Droid.

That's not really an alternative as only a few nerds will jump through these hoops. The app is as good as dead if you are not in the stores.


It is an alternative. And it is infinitely superior than the situation on iOS where you are simply out of options if Apple does not approve. With Android it might be harder than being listed in the Play Store, but at least it is possible and there are massive communities who do so.


There are plenty of other stores with reasonable reach, such as Samsung, Huawei and Amazon's stores.

Of course not nearly as much, but discoverability in the Play Store is already a mess.


If you have a solid community users will download the app.

Hell, you can point them to a GitHub artifacts page.

At least it's an option.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: