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Do you guys really pay 100$/y to build Apps for IOS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Cr4yfish@lemmy.world to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee
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With every new App published on IOS I wonder again how the financing works. Just through donations, or do you "take one for the team"?

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[–] ChaosAD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going more for the meme then for insulting, sorry. The main problem is the API is very different between the platforms, for what I've seen I don't think this is a trivial task. Also there is a lot more to deal with than when he was developing for reddit, his app account for federation problem/features that aren't implemented in any other app yet.

Me personally still prefer Jerboa, but I think the Sync dev deserve credit for his work, and how much he thinks he should charge is subjective.

As long as this money isn't going to a big corp this is fine. Also he brought many to the fediverse with his action.

[–] Cr4yfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When I say it's a lot less work than making an app from scratch I'm mainly thinking about the UI/UX design which only had to be adjusted in Sync's case. I do lots of UI design for private projects and work, so I know that it's a big part of the workload.

his app account for federation problem/features that aren’t implemented in any other app yet

What do you mean? I'm no Sync expert but I did test out the app and didn't notice any special features. I'm especially interested in instance related tech since that's kinda the USP of my own App, Nemmy.