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wahnfrieden • yesterday at 11:34 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

“Just try an alt store” is a condescendingly flippant comment - there is near zero market for iOS alt stores and most people in most countries have no access either.

My above comment is not an excuse for design spam. The design spam rule is necessary. Your feedback is not.

Synths have never been a high profit business on iOS. And small earners are not a priority for Apple review. There’s a business case for not being bothered with most indie apps.

To suggest there’s categorically no room for innovation or value add with new synth products is just ignorant though.


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hmokiguess • yesterday at 11:42 PM

There is also near zero market for more Synth Apps at this point so I'm not sure what you want here.

It's like when the App Store started, someone made a Flashlight App and it was cool. We sure had enough of that by now. Now that AI turned everyone into a maker and the bar is lower in a world of abundance, it's only natural that things shift in terms of expectations for distribution.

This is how new markets take shape too, YouTube became so trash that now platforms such as Nebula came out as a business.

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j45 • yesterday at 11:44 PM

An Alt iOS store isn't accessible to everyone in every country either as far as I know.