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An Open Letter Calling for the Resignation of Eugen Rochko (Gargron) from Mastodon Development (seedy.xyz)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Also does anyone else find it strange they would do a native iOS app before android? Not only is the apple store more locked down and iOS more restrictive against open source, but also far less people use it worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Tusky has been around for a long time and it works really well. I really don't think of anything to improve there to be honest. Since there's already a good and popular Android app it probably does make sense to make an iOS client if there wasn't one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

Makes sense. Tusky is quite good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

I think that because Android is more widespread amongst FLOSS users, there are going fewer motivated devs to volunteer their time for an IOS app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I assume its because ios users donate more money to the Mastodon project compared to android users.

Edit: or maybe because Apple users are overrepresented among Mastodon donors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

No, Eugen has previously stated that he does not want an official app at all and is happy with the 3rd party ones available for Android. He then later changed his stance somewhat to recognizing that there arn't really many 3rd party developers interested in making iOS apps and therefore developing a high quality app for iOS is more important than having yet another one for Android.

Personally I think Apple and Apple users can go f*ck themselves, but if Eugen wants to put his time into developing a good iOS client that is really his business alone.