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

>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.

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.

i’d guess it’s more to keep extremely low effort submissions out of the app store.

Which is not unreasonable for something listed in the App Store. It is unreasonable that you can’t sideload though.

I'm pretty sure the $99 fee is explicitly there to prevent "normal" users from side-loading.