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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.513s | source
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nancyminusone ◴[18 Jun 25 19:54 UTC] No.44312819[source]▶
>I’m saving approximately $84-120 CAD annually.

I suppose most of this is eaten up by the need to pay apple $99 per year just to run your own app on your own phone for longer than a week.

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procinct ◴[18 Jun 25 20:41 UTC] No.44313113[source]▶
I believe you only have to pay to put your app on the App Store. I’ve made apps for my iPhone before and never had to pay.
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1. sheepscreek ◴[18 Jun 25 20:58 UTC] No.44313231[source]▶
I’m not a 100% on this, but I believe you need to pay them to “sign” your app. For iOS, that means there is no way anyone else will be able to use your app unless they side-load it themselves (and we all know how cumbersome that is, Apple doesn’t want to make it easy).
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2. notnmeyer ◴[18 Jun 25 21:07 UTC] No.44313286[source]▶
correct