Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change
Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change August 09, 2026 Categories Reading time: 4 minutes Recently, someone on Mastodon shared this video titled "Apple Changed..." by a guy named Theo who I'd never heard of, but according to his website he's a guy who "builds things". I had nothing better to do (sleepless night...) and I enjoy a good Apple bashing, so I watched the video. In it, Theo spends an hour ranting about how terrible the experience of developing apps for the iPhone/iPad is, how Apple takes 30% of all app store and in app purchases, how awful Xcode is as a development environment and how even as a developer you have to get Apple's approval to run your own app on your own device.
- ▪Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change August 09, 2026 Categories Reading time: 4 minutes Recently, someone on Mastodon shared this video titled "Apple Changed..." by a guy named Theo who I'd never heard of, b
- ▪I had nothing better to do (sleepless night...) and I enjoy a good Apple bashing, so I watched the video.
- ▪In it, Theo spends an hour ranting about how terrible the experience of developing apps for the iPhone/iPad is, how Apple takes 30% of all app store and in app purchases, how awful Xcode is as a development environment and how even as a dev
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| Publication time | Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:55:02 +0000 |
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Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change August 09, 2026 Categories Reading time: 4 minutes Recently, someone on Mastodon shared this video titled "Apple Changed..." by a guy named Theo who I'd never heard of, but according to his website he's a guy who "builds things". Apps, presumably. I had nothing better to do (sleepless night...) and I enjoy a good Apple bashing, so I watched the video. In it, Theo spends an hour ranting about how terrible the experience of developing apps for the iPhone/iPad is, how Apple takes 30% of all app store and in app purchases, how awful Xcode is as a development environment and how even as a developer you have to get Apple's approval to run your own app on your own device.
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