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| ▲ | gervwyk 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | if true. this is insane | | |
| ▲ | crazygringo a day ago | parent [-] | | It's not. Apple regularly rejects apps when they appear to be functionally identical to 10+ existing apps. They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing. | | |
| ▲ | makeitdouble a day ago | parent [-] | | > They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing. I read it as the "insane" part parent is pointing at. It's nothing new, has been going on basically since the existence of the App store and Apple has explicitly built their whole business to put themselves as the arbiter of who gets to have their app on people's phones. Still it's healthy that from times to time we stop and shout "that whole situation is insane" (short of finding a way to actually do something about it) |
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| ▲ | w10-1 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are those documented anywhere? | | |
| ▲ | Jonovono 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Somewhat, but still very subjective. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#spa... You can still always get around them (at least my experience), but it just takes a lot of time | | |
| ▲ | mortenjorck a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Look up "wireless printing" in the App Store sometime. As best I can tell, one or two actors have spammed the entire category with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of subscription-heavy repackagings of CUPS drivers as iOS apps. They all have very similar blue line-art icons of a printer, similar preview images with similar typography, and are all crammed full of subscription options. They are probably making a killing on people who forgot about or can't figure out how to cancel the $4.99/week subscription on the top 20-30 of these apps. All this while of course the one app you've been working on for a year will be held up with multiple rounds of rejections weeks apart. For all the good Cook has done in his 15 years at Apple, the App Store will be the one real stain on his legacy, and I hope Ternus is as acutely cognizant of that as the developer community is. | | |
| ▲ | bigyabai a day ago | parent [-] | | > the App Store will be the one real stain on his legacy Well, and the Apple Car. And the Butterfly Keyboard and that horrible i9 16" MBP. Plus the Airpower, and the Vision Pro, and he cancelled the entire Mac Pro lineup too. Also the $1,000 VESA monitor mount and goofy desktop wheels, and we should probably also mention his meetings with Donald Trump and eventual White House dinner with Bin Salman. Tim also failed to legally deter NSO Group, held a grudge against Nvidia during a $4 trillion ARM/CUDA datacenter boom, greenlit Liquid Glass, proposed Client-Side Scanning and fought dirty against organic and reasonable EU regulations. But besides that, yes, the pitiful state of the App Store will be remembered as his true strategic slip-up. |
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| ▲ | dgellow 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The guideline: (b) Don’t submit apps that are indistinguishable from what's already widely available. Opportunistically creating variants of existing app categories or popular apps degrades App Store discovery, reduces overall app quality, and harms both users and developers. Certain kinds of apps, such as dating, flashlight, sound effects, wallpaper, simple timers, and fortune telling, are well established on the App Store and we will not accept new submissions unless they offer a meaningfully different or improved experience. We may remove these apps from the App Store going forward if they are not updated, improved, or do not attract customers. Other kinds of apps, such as drinking games, Kama Sutra, fart, and burp apps, are mediocre, low-quality, or low-effort and do not add value to the App Store. Repeated submissions of this kind may lead to removal from the Apple Developer Program. | | |
| ▲ | Grombobulous a day ago | parent [-] | | This is such a dumb policy, and it's absolutely not even being followed. I submitted a timer app this year and it got approved. It's literally just a slightly more feature-rich timer. I made this as a "my first app" type of experience. Never at any point was the quality of my app questioned, and I'm the first person who will tell you that it's not very good. | | |
| ▲ | Jonovono a day ago | parent [-] | | Don't worry. The next time you spend lots of time developing an app, Apple will be sure to reject it multiple times ;p |
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