> This is false; the new policy dates from today and Epic's ToS violation was several weeks ago. This policy is clearly in response to the negative publicity an

> This is false; the new policy dates from today and Epic's ToS violation was several weeks ago. This policy is clearly in response to the negative publicity and the judge's ruling barring Apple from ending Unreal Engine access on iOS. Strange to see someone so quick to denounce a statement as false & professes to know exactly why they announced it yet couldn't be bothered to do even the most rudimentary research? Why? This change was well known in advance to anyone following the news cycle around the Hey saga & WWDC. Apple announced exactly this in a press release in June with this upcoming change [1]: > First, developers will not only be able to appeal decisions about whether an app violates a given guideline of the App Store Review Guidelines, but will also have a mechanism to challenge the guideline itself. Second, for apps that are already on the App Store, bug fixes will no longer be delayed over guideline violations except for those related to legal issues. [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-reveals-new-developer-technologies-to-foster-the-next-generation-of-apps/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-reveals-new-dev...