100 Days Without the App Store
All of Dash’s App Store revenue has migrated to direct sales, with a slight increase.
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Dash for iOS was never a significant part of my revenue and like most iOS apps it was never sustainable. I should have open-sourced it a long time ago, as it now brings in more revenue by promoting Dash for macOS.
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Dash for iOS returned to the App Store just a few days after I open-sourced it, thanks to He Tiancong and Jie Wang. This is despite the fact that I specifically chose a license that’s incompatible with the App Store. I highly recommend avoiding Dash on the iOS App Store, as I do not know what modifications they have made to my code.
Previously: Apple Removed Dash From the Mac App Store, Apple and Kapeli Respond About Dash.
Update (2017-01-12): Both of the iOS apps are called Dash and have the same icon. And one of them even uses Kapeli’s name. Apple’s reviewers should catch stuff like this.
@appstore did the same to @i0n1c over his App SysSecInfo. Other App clones w same functionality were approved. Just not his.
Update (2017-01-13): Bogdan Popescu (tweet):
Two more developers just released Dash on the iOS App Store as paid apps: Cuilian Su and Zuogen Zhang.