the gap between apple consumer UX and devEX is enormous. partially because their consumer experience is so good, but devEX is certainly below-average. 

goes to show just how much shit devs are willing to go through to gain access to the ecosystem.

mostly reading and building. 
prev: @clankfun, improbable, github, amazon. https://ntik.me

yeah ngl,i've been vibe coding some swift apps for myself

but the bar for -runs on my machine- vs it's signed and available in the App Store is a huge mentally one at least, like you have to plan around it to invest the time and probably have a good story to tell yourself about whats your ROI

sad thing is it kills the free apps phenomenon a bit

my guess at the reasons:

- "premium" audience that spends more on the hardware/accessories
- every app update is manually reviewed with strict guidelines. it's a pretty high bar just to get on the app store in the first place - hence less competition.

this might explain why App Store apps can get away with crazy sub schemes and have fewer competition 

you either embrace apple fully (and get a moat) or you fade and go multi-platform (expo/webapp whatever)