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This is really fucked up: are the app developers made aware of those? (likely not) are they going to experience some "strange" behavior, not like anybody else?

This is really fucked up: are the app developers made aware of those? (likely not) are they going to experience some "strange" behavior, not like anybody else? if someone at Apple gets aware of a "problem", why not contact the app developers to help fix? It also means that if some other developers want to make an app with the same kind of feature/behavior, they can't? Some app developers also use special bundle IDs for testing... I only see "no-go" reasons for such a thing, not a single valid or positive one!

ridiculous_fish 8y ago
Yes, it's common for Apple to report a bug against the app; in fact in many cases the bug has already been fixed in the latest version! But that doesn't help users who are using old versions. Most app developers aren't going to spend resources putting out a dot release for years-old versions of their app. But users use those apps every day. Check-fixed behavior is not a "feature," it's some sub-optimal behavior applied to work around serious bugs. An example is lying to the app about the OS version, to prevent the app from breaking. No developer wants to opt-into such behavior. Note that check-fixes are tied to an SDK version, so when the developer switches to the newest SDK, they'll see the normal behavior.