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> It can't be for the money. That's right. Huge multinational corporations famously don't like money.

• musingsole 6y ago
  Don't underestimate the power of immoral mazes. With a corporation the size of Apple, the middlepeople are all very far removed from the specifics of what does and doesn't generate profit and instead are following their interpretation of directives and attempting to appease their superiors -- which may or may not be quantified in monthly revenue. I imagine in the case of app review, their performance metrics can't be expressed in revenue, so their must be using something else to grade themselves.
  • Aeolun 6y ago
    Probably how many apps get reviewed/rejected/approved/escalated in a certain cycle. My suspicion is the focus is more on the first than on the last of those statistics. If the focus was on the last we’d hopefully not see so many spurious rejections.
• matwood 6y ago
  > That's right. Huge multinational corporations famously don't like money. In some cases yes. The whole concept of 'Innovators Dilemma' is built on this fact. Squeezing an extra million here or there is a waste of Apple's time at their scale. It doesn't move the Apple revenue needle. Getting WP or some fitness app, even in aggregate to give 30% of a subset of customer subscription does nothing for Apple except hurt their brand. It probably actually costs them money from losing brand value. Google OTOH pays Apple billions to be the default and/or first position on the search list. That's why we're unlikely to see an Apple search engine anytime soon.