Apple admits it ranked its Files app ahead of competitor Dropbox
Developers of ios (and soon macOS) platform have no one to blame but themselves for situations like this.<p>Alarm bells should have been raised among us developers when Apple suddenly asked everyone to shell out $99 for the &quot;privilege&quot; of making an app available on the &quot;App Store&quot;, and treated it as something normal. And later, more so, when Apple demanded a percentage cut too on every sale you make from <i>your</i> app.<p>It is like everyone chose to forget that it is we developers who bring additional value to any platform we support, and we readily allowed ourselves to be treated like fools by Apple (and others). (I guess this is what hapens when we forget our history in this industry - the Windows mobile platform died because it didn&#x27;t find acceptance among developers. Mobile platforms like Sailfish OS &#x2F; Tizen OS &#x2F; webOS today all struggle because they can&#x27;t attract developers to their platform. And yet, we now allow the dominating platforms to exploit and treat us with disdain - aren&#x27;t we truly idiots?)<p>We should never have condoned this totally unnecessary and greedy &quot;Apple Tax&quot; practice as it harms both us developers and consumers - <i>our customers are forced to pay more, and we lose money too in the process</i>!<p><pre><code>    I urge all macOS &#x2F; ios developers to see the warning signs. It is still not too late - please boycott and remove all your apps from the app store and stop paying Apple any money. 
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No one should have to pay Apple even for signing apps - if they want it, we should have the freedom to get it signed by any CA. (Remember, open source software has essentially been already nearly killed on ios platforms because of this unnecessary annual fee bullshit. And Apple wants that because it knows free open source software is detrimental to making money from its App Store).<p>We played a huge role in the success of Windows, Android and ios - and now, in their arrogance if they want to change the rules to screw us, all of us really need to organise and fight back. I fear we are at that defining moment now where if we do not do anything, this is going to become an accepted norm and standard practice.<p>And this is going to be hugely detrimental to us, in the long run, as both developers and consumers.