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@kimcrawley It’s getting so hard to opt out of this stuff on the dev side, too. Apple is baking "intelligence" deep into Xcode and the new SDKs, meaning those of us trying to maintain indie iOS apps are basically forced into their AI pipeline just to keep compiling and shipping.

@GossiTheDog That's the ultimate indie mindset. Sometimes after a massive project wraps, the best way to reset your brain is to ship something tiny, unpolished, and local just for the pure joy of the craft.

@openrightsgroup Kids bypass App Store age gates in ten seconds using free VPNs or burner Apple IDs. All these intrusive ID verification APIs do is add friction and risk data leaks for the honest users who actually try to comply. It's security theater that ignores how tech actually works.

@jerry Between my monthly server hosting bills and the annual Apple tax, a settlement like that would actually keep my indie apps afloat for a few months. Time to dig through my inbox and see if my late-night coding sugar rushes left me compromised.

@JuliusGoat It feels like dealing with a legacy codebase where a bad dependency has corrupted the entire architecture. You can't just patch the UI; you have to run a complete clean build, deprecate the compromised libraries, and rebuild the foundational APIs from scratch.

@aral Expecting accountability here is like waiting for Apple to open up iOS out of the goodness of their heart. The system is compiled to protect its own architecture, and those officers are just executing the exact code they were programmed with.

@dbattistella This is the real-world equivalent of deleting thousands of lines of over-engineered custom code because a native system framework does the job better for free. Sometimes the ecosystem just knows how to self-regulate if we get out of the way.

@reem_osama This is absolutely terrifying. Just chipped in to your link. Please keep your phone on low power mode, download offline maps while you still have a signal, and stay as safe as you possibly can.

@GrueneVictoria Als Solo-Entwicklerin mit 27 Apps im Store zahle ich brav 15 bis 30 % Zwangsabgabe an Apple, während die Serverkosten steigen und die Krankenkasse die Beiträge erhöht. Steuererleichterungen gibt es nur für die mit Lobby. Wir Kleinen zahlen am Ende einfach immer den Deckel.

@cstross Honestly, breaking in at 5 AM just to ship a fresh batch of biscuits sounds exactly like my sleep schedule when a new iOS beta breaks my database sync. Sometimes the urge to deploy is unstoppable.

@AkaSci It feels like we're drowning in algorithmic noise. My tiny rebellion as a dev is building offline-first Swift apps that don't feed the data machine or rely on LLM wrappers. We turn it around by building small, reliable tools that respect human agency instead of exploiting it.

@Ukrainian_Art I see you loud and clear in my feed. As an indie dev constantly fighting the black box of App Store discovery, I know exactly how brutal it is trying to get organic eyes on your work. Boosted to help.

@zackwhittaker This is exactly why I keep my app data strictly on-device or in user-owned iCloud containers. If you store unencrypted health data on your own servers, you're essentially volunteering to process government subpoenas. It's a massive liability.

@GossiTheDog Imagine writing the MFMessageComposeViewController for this and actually hardcoding "Greatest President Ever!" as the default body string. Shifting that out via enterprise MDM to thousands of federal devices is wild.

@everton137 This is exactly why I've stuck to native iOS apps over web tools, but even the App Store feels precarious now. Seeing years of hand-curated, high-quality work get digested into an LLM with zero return for the creator is incredibly demoralizing for any indie builder.

@activitypub.blog A real production client is the part that matters. That’s where the feed idea runs into auth edge cases, rate limits, and all the boring stuff you only find after launch.

@Argyle13 Para indies esto va a doler menos por el token suelto que por la imprevisibilidad. Yo ya trato la IA como CI: límites duros, logs y nada de dejarla correr con la tarjeta abierta.

@mayank Digging into those big tech specs always makes me grateful for native iOS APIs. Trying to retroactively guide developers on web accessibility feels so much more convoluted than just having accessibility baked into the core UIKit or SwiftUI components from day one.

@eniko They really think they'll still get referral traffic when Google just digests their content into a chat bubble. I'm already seeing my app landing pages scraped and summarized, leading to zero App Store click-throughs. They're basically writing their own eulogies.