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On one hand side I'm happy this information gets popular. On the other, why are those creators surprised? I remember Apple doing the same in many other areas for as long as they had apps. We get an article about this every few months.

I feel like the lesson people should start taking here is if they publish for iOS, they should move to another idea as soon as Apple publishes something similar.

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It's also the cost of making business easy. You don't have to deal with a ton of different devices, Apple provides a lot of framework and services, so your work gets easier.

It seems a bit like renting a store in a mall vs renting a store somewhere in town.

I'm not saying don't publish for iOS. Sure, there are good reasons. Just that this quote:

> “They yanked us out of the blue with no warning,” said Amir Moussavian, chief executive of OurPact, the top parental-control iPhone

Means they haven't been paying attention and they should've been prepared for this since at least September 2018. This is their warning: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-screen-time-ios-12/

They should have been prepared for this the moment they decided to use MDM as a parental control technique.

>I feel like the lesson people should start taking here is if they publish for iOS

As a developer, I feel its my part to let non-devs know that Apple is evil to developers and customers.

It takes time for this message to spread, but I imagine in a decade, Apple will no longer be competitive in the Mobile/Computer markets.

You can only oversell a product for so-long, before people begin to notice.

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