@winterschon It would definitely piss off users. But it would solve the “Apple wants to make money off of iOS” problem- it would just shift the cost directly to the user through upgrade fees rather than indirectly to the user through developer fees.
@jimmylittle I thought about that as well but it would mean a LOT more people stuck on older versions, so a lot more backwards compatibility to manage for devs and a lot more security updates for Apple.
@markv I totally agree. One thing overlooked in the whole fee structure kerfuffle is the old adage that Apple has 3 priorities:
Apple
Customers
Developers
Devs are not the priority for this company, and they never have been (I say as a person who has worked on major apps). If shifting burden from the customer to the developer is an option, Apple will almost always go that route. It’s not recent, and it’s not Tim Cook. This has been the way for decades.
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