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Not. You don’t need to pay $100 to upload your app to an iPhone, even with XCode for iOS 26

Technically not but the devil is in the details. Having to reinstall the app every 7 days and a limit of one app doesn’t even pass the bare minimum.

Jolla has a prelaunch campaign, decent phones for 200€. I might just as well grab one. Sick of having a phone which is more expensive than my laptop but I can barely use.

The limit is 3 apps AFAIK

Imagine Windows limited you to three apps. How is this acceptable?

Imagine Windows was free.

Imagine if you paid for Windows and didn’t get adverts.

Wait, I can download and run iOS on my own hardware? Not that I have tried, but I always thought Apples whole schtick was you were only allowed to run their software on their latest X revisions of their hardware?

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