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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 | 5 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.625s | 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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1. rkagerer ◴[18 Jun 25 23:16 UTC] No.44314081[source]▶
This is why I switched to Android 10 years ago. Unfortunately the grass isn't looking much greener over there these days.

I'd love to hear from individuals who worked at these companies whether it disgusts them as much as it does me, and ideas (from a business perspective as much as technical) on how a new platform might wrest control back into the hands of users/owners.

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2. sampullman ◴[19 Jun 25 03:29 UTC] No.44315192[source]▶
The Android fee is only $25, but in my experience everything around the submission process is at least 4x worse, so it evens out.

At least Apple has humans doing review and support.

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3. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[19 Jun 25 05:49 UTC] No.44315828[source]▶
In this very narrow case, the grass on the Android side is much greener: You can install your own APKs on an Android device without paying anyone at all, without having to upload anything anywhere, and without requiring any particular device to build the APK in the first place. You don't even need to touch the bootloader or root it; you just toggle a setting to allow the installation and it works.
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4. prmoustache ◴[19 Jun 25 08:14 UTC] No.44316534[source]▶
But you don'have to pay to sideload your app and have it stay forever on your device.
5. freedomben ◴[19 Jun 25 12:53 UTC] No.44318234[source]▶
For now at least. There have been articles recently about how Google is looking to change that