Apple needs to fix this process or they WILL lose developers.
I have no problem with simple humans making a decision to list an app in the App Store according to subjective guidelines. It helps get through a lot of submissions fast.
But delisting an app should involve a serious review process involving several levels of people on both sides.
And the depth of the review process should directly correlate to the number of installs and the time the app has been in the store.
This means that something like AppGratis has at least an assurance that their 45 staff wont be out of a job simply because they got someone in a bad mood.
The whole "no sympathy" bullshit is talk from people with nothing better to do that shit upon a fellow HN reader.
Imagine if Apple decided to pull Zynga's apps because they use notifications to promote themselves. There goes a public company up in smoke. The FTC will surely have something to say about that.
It still blows my mind that you can't pay $X,000-$XX,000 a year to get into a different line at Apple and get some damn feedback. Companies are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month building iOS apps, and they get the same treatment as a guy making an alarm clock app one Saturday morning. And I say that as a former alarm clock app sideproject maker and now professional app developer.
I have no problem with simple humans making a decision to list an app in the App Store according to subjective guidelines. It helps get through a lot of submissions fast.
But delisting an app should involve a serious review process involving several levels of people on both sides.
And the depth of the review process should directly correlate to the number of installs and the time the app has been in the store.
This means that something like AppGratis has at least an assurance that their 45 staff wont be out of a job simply because they got someone in a bad mood.
The whole "no sympathy" bullshit is talk from people with nothing better to do that shit upon a fellow HN reader.
Imagine if Apple decided to pull Zynga's apps because they use notifications to promote themselves. There goes a public company up in smoke. The FTC will surely have something to say about that.