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Maybe because they've already made bank and are sick of dealing with the app store? With those kind of profits, Apple should be accomodating them, not vice vers
by sprout 16y ago
Maybe because they've already made bank and are sick of dealing with the app store? With those kind of profits, Apple should be accomodating them, not vice versa.
- bradleyland 16y agoSo Apple should abandon their rules and guidelines for popular developers? How is that fair to all the other developers in the app store? That's the exact opposite of what Apple should do. Imagine if you were competing with Camera+ who, because they sell a lot of apps, were allowed to use the volume button as a shutter trigger. You come along with your camera app and try the same thing, only to be shut down by Apple just because you don't sell as many apps. That is definitively anti-competitive behavior and is the antithesis of what an app store should be.
- sprout 16y agoNo, they should abandon their rules and guidelines and trust consumers to make an informed choice. If they really want to keep up with this nonsense they can make some sort of an "Apple Approved" logo that gives you better search rankings in the market if you get it. This draconian approval process is ridiculous.
- bradleyland 16y agoStrawman alert. I never made the argument that they shouldn't run an unregulated app store. Whether or not Apple should regulate app approval is a completely separate argument from the one presented in your original post. You stated that "with those kinds of profits", Apple should accommodate them. That implies favoritism. The only thing worse than a regulated app store is a regulated app store that exhibits favoritism.
- sprout 16y agoIt was a general statement. Apple makes profits off of developer sales, Apple should not be making developers' lives unnecessarily difficult. Though I suppose yes, I would say that regulation based on sales is a much better metric than the capricious whimsy that currently governs the Apple approval process. (And yes, I'd call the HID standards whimsical, and although they specifically are not capricious, I'm again speaking in general.)
- ericd 16y agoThey would argue that it's not unnecessary, what they're doing. They're not doing it just to make developers lives difficult. The process annoys me too, but I can see the reasoning behind it, and I think a lot of it is prudent.
- maukdaddy 16y agoTheir profits pale in comparison to Apple's BILLIONS. Also, you don't throw away your own rules for one successful developer.