>for me, the correct way forward isn’t external referrals. it’s allowing multiple app stores on devices. if you don't want the “untrusted” 3rd party store with more lax dev rules than Apple’s, just don’t use them.

Exactly. Or better yet just let me install whatever binaries I want. Make it clear I'm responsible for what I install though.

From the perspective of the average consumer, it's much easier for Apple to handle the whole flow. If I want to cancel my subscription via the app store it take 30 seconds, not a bunch of unanswered emails to customer support.

Most customers are probably going to assume your a con artist if you don't use the official IAP.

When I use mobile apps I like being able to do all my spending in one place. I want to be able to go to subscriptions and cancel everything I don't need at once.

Just yesterday I had to manually stop a PayPal payment renewal since the merchants cancellation process doesn't work ( 2 emails to customer service and I get the vibe this is intentional).

That's not something I want to have to keep doing.

I can imagine Epic being able to convince people to use a 3rd party payment provider, but that won't happen for smaller studios.

If anything, it's a good sign that these tools are no where close to replacing us.

I was trying to get postgres working with a project the other day, and Claude decided that it was going to just replace it with SQL lite when it couldn't get the build to work.

All I want is "I don't know how to do this." But now these tools would rather just do it wrong.

They also have a very very strong tendency to try and force unoptimized solutions. You'll have 3 classes that do the exact same thing with only minor variable differences. Something a human would do in one class.

For my latest project I'm strongly tempted to just suck it up and code the whole thing by hand.

Likewise, no meaningful consequences exist for the actual software creators here.

The User had to pinky promise not to do it again, the service was ultimately restored.

Aside from the 8k bill nothing happened to them.

This article feels more like a self name and shame. I wouldn't trust these people to run code on my computer

As is the Chinese web tends to be less full of complex JavaScript and CSS tricks.

It wouldn't surprise me if these processors are more than fine for municipal workers.