I just spent £700 to have my own app on my iPhone (2022)

For context, this is a 2022 blog post by the author of the Google Web Environment Integrity spec (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity - overview at https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen...).

A choice quote from the post:

> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30553448 (5 comments)

> This brought me really close to getting an Android phone again.

That'll show them!!!! Really sticking it to the man.