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Vendor lock in is what Apple strives for. People who are locked in with Apple products have no idea how terrible Apple products are. They die without realising that they are locked in. It's almost like you are born in a dictatorship country where you have zero knowledge about the outside world.

Isaac 🦆

@chaba.dev

Linux/Unix, Android, or even Windows are heterogeneous systems where they support various hardware configs that are hard to support consistently. This diversity is a challenge but nurtures the innovation and robustness of software which Apple fundamentally denies and kills.

27/4/25, 6:22 pm0 reposts0 likes

Isaac 🦆

@chaba.dev

3 May 2025

Apple knows they are weak in software tech. Their mistake is that they decided to focus on myopic vendor lock-in rather than improving their software tech stack for long term sustaining success. bsky.app/profile/gerg...

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

One reason Apple fought tooth and nail to disallow web payments for apps: Because Apple’s IAP is SO bad in many ways, and *so many* apps will move to web-based payments now not mainly because of the 30% Apple fee, but because of how bad IAP is (from a dev perspective). Let me give you21 examples: