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>they use arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement I've experienced this directly a few times. In one case, we had an app in the store for several years and a r

>they use arbitrary and inconsistent enforcement I've experienced this directly a few times. In one case, we had an app in the store for several years and a random update that fixed a crash was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. It took a couple weeks to appeal and get it approved. In that process, we changed nothing functional and resubmitted with a couple bits twiddled to make the package different and that passed. In another instance, we made three white-labelled versions of the app. Both differed from the original app only in the colors in the design palette, and the name of the publisher since these were to be published under our customers' own accounts. One passed review without comment, and the other was abandoned after several months of back-and-forth.

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
> was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. It took a couple weeks to appeal and get it approve That is impressive. We can't get our app past review because Apple is insisting we are permitting out-of-app purchases (not true, but they are insisting on in-app purchase capability).
seviu 6y ago
> a random update that fixed a crash was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. >... and the other was abandoned after several months of back-and-forth. This. Once you get on their bad side with an App there is no end to it. The App Store review team will keep on rejecting every single update you do for totally unrelated random reasons. One of my apps got approved when first submitted. Everything after that was just absurd to the point we had to abandon it. The App Store review team kept on rejecting any update we would make. The last one which was supposed to be a bugfix release got through three reviews. Each one got rejected due to different reasons. Each one addressed the problem the review team asked us to 'fix'. It was clear they did not want us in the store. We had to stop it. Half a year of work vanishing just like that. It would have been so much easier if they had told us that they did not want us in the App Store. Such a waste of time.

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago

> was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. It took a couple weeks to appeal and get it approve That is impressive. We can't get our app past review because Apple is insisting we are permitting out-of-app purchases (not true, but they are insisting on in-app purchase capability).

seviu 6y ago

> a random update that fixed a crash was blocked for violating the rule around allowing out of app purchases. >... and the other was abandoned after several months of back-and-forth. This. Once you get on their bad side with an App there is no end to it. The App Store review team will keep on rejecting every single update you do for totally unrelated random reasons. One of my apps got approved when first submitted. Everything after that was just absurd to the point we had to abandon it. The App Store review team kept on rejecting any update we would make. The last one which was supposed to be a bugfix release got through three reviews. Each one got rejected due to different reasons. Each one addressed the problem the review team asked us to 'fix'. It was clear they did not want us in the store. We had to stop it. Half a year of work vanishing just like that. It would have been so much easier if they had told us that they did not want us in the App Store. Such a waste of time.