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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: 0.495s | 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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behnamoh ◴[18 Jun 25 20:55 UTC] No.44313215[source]▶
This Apple fee is one of the most absurd things they do. Like, how is it even justified—does Apple really spend $99 on infra maintenance and server costs to host your app?

When I buy a device I want to know that I own it, but Apple keeps pushing the narrative that "we LET you use this device in ways we see fit". So basically the customer is just borrowing a device from Apple while paying the full price.

I'm a longtime Apple user but can't shake off this love-hate relationship with the company.

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aerostable_slug ◴[18 Jun 25 21:05 UTC] No.44313272[source]▶
I think it's fair to also cover the fairly rigorous testing that occurs for each app store submission. I'm not sure a hundred bucks is the right number, but it's not fair to say all they do is host the file.
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1. neilv ◴[18 Jun 25 22:14 UTC] No.44313727[source]▶
> I think it's fair to also cover the fairly rigorous testing that occurs for each app store submission.

By "fairly rigorous", do you mean "fickle, random"?

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2. lm411 ◴[19 Jun 25 20:06 UTC] No.44322076[source]▶
Not even close compared to Google Play and their review and appeal process.

Recently I had an app for a customer. Approved easily by Apple. Rejected by Google.

The reason given by Google was completely meaningless in the context of the app. When this happens, I usually make a bullshit change, increment the version, and submit again. That was also rejected in this case. I asked for more info and they provided a meaningless screenshot of the app - that was all. So I appealed. That was also useless! They provided no info to help.

Eventually I just created a new Google Play account and re-submitted a new version of the app, and it was accepted near immediately.

I've had some annoying experiences with Apples review process but it is gold compared to Google Play.