--- title: Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or... description: A developer reflects on a viral video by Theo criticizing Apple's restrictive iOS development ecosystem — 30% App Store cut, mandatory Xcode, device approval... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on a viral video by Theo criticizing Apple's restrictive iOS development ecosystem — 30% App Store cut, mandatory Xcode, device approval... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ApJyhQdDD.png og:image:alt: Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on a viral video by Theo criticizing Apple's restrictive iOS development ecosystem — 30% App Store cut, mandatory Xcode, device approval requirements — and argues that angry videos change nothing as long as developers keep buying Apple products. The core argument is that consumer spending is the only lever that matters to corporations like Apple, and that leaving the ecosystem, painful as it is, is the only way to drive real change. The post is influenced by Dave Rupert's piece on supporting companies you actually like. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#app-store](https://daily.dev/tags/app-store) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd"},"datePublished":"2026-08-09T16:24:33.642Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:48:39.991Z","description":"A developer reflects on a viral video by Theo criticizing Apple's restrictive iOS development ecosystem — 30% App Store cut, mandatory Xcode, device approval...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change-apjyhqddd","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"apple,ios,app-store","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"}]} ```