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Also the main point is valve does not do anything to prevent you from selling the game directly or through other stores.

I don't get wolfire's point here. Yes steam takes a hefty 30% cut but game developers are free to sell directly if they want to. Unlike apple who have completely locked down the iOS app ecosystem or Google who allow sideloading but scares and warns people against downloading apps from non Play Store sources, steam does nothing to hinder games not sold through it. If there was a competitor who was as good as steam but took a smaller cut, then that competitor would have been the market leader in place of steam.

I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

But the voyager dev has not seen or used apollo's code to build voyager. He has done everything from scratch only taking heavy inspiration from Apollo. Christian has helped indirectly by being the one to develop the UI which serves as inspiration but considering that voyager is not a competitor to apollo, in my opinion he has no right to be outraged at the fact that it is a looklike. He is free to not contribute to voyager and it is true that he has already contributed a lot indirectly but him getting angry or upset at the fact that the UI is pretty similar makes no sense to me.

RevenueCat used for in-app tipping is quite a heavy sdk. I've switched to a custom-built, lightweight solution.

Slightly off topic but have you seen an increase in donations since the introduction of in-app tipping¿? If yes, then other open source apps could also implement this. The current funding and donations space of the open source community is in a poor state. I try to help by donating but I am from a developing country with a low cost of living so my donations are usually small amounts. Hopefully with in app tipping non tech oriented people who moved to lemmy are also donating.

I was talking more about the UI specifications and not about open sourcing the entire app. In any case it seems I was wrong because I could find nothing relating to Christian sharing his code or specification relating to apollo's UI.

This makes me respect @aeharding@lemmy.world even more because he was able to create an app pretty similar to Apollo(UI wise) by writing everything from scratch

It seems I was wrong. I remember reading somewhere that he would do this but I can find anywhere where he has said or done it

I am confused. Didn't he release the Apollo design specifications after the APIcalypse. People were always going to release copycat apps using that.

Edit : Seems I was wrong

Considering tsunoda made the one stop work pretty well, I think that it was worth the risk for AR. They were going to finish well outside the points anyway and went for it.

They've had the luxury of being able to switch focus to next year since May already.

Well between the penalty and the fact that they naturally get less time because of their championship position, teams like McLaren would have had almost 50% more testing time. This and the fact that updates on this year's car carry over to the next in my opinion nullify the advantage RB got from stopping upgrades early. What is an issue for other teams is that with the design team that RB has, I back them to make better improvements than the others even if the testing time allocated for next year by all the teams is the same

It was not that dirty. Charles could have blocked him in the apexes of the final 3-4 turns to ensure perez gains 5 seconds on him. What Charles did was more tactical than dirty

Stop blaming Ferrari for sainz's strategy. He was slow today and there was no way he was ending up ahead of hamilton or even in the points. They rolled the dice with best option they had

I don't know man they did fine. Sainz was just slow. I don't see any strategy that ends up with him ahead of hamilton