I see a lot of comments regarding the App Review process and lack of competition in this space as to why the App Review process is broken, in regards to App rev

I see a lot of comments regarding the App Review process and lack of competition in this space as to why the App Review process is broken, in regards to App review. A different take: I don't think App Review would exist on a competing 'App Store' on iOS. Fundamentally, if any review took place at all, it's going to be automated only. I don't see any competitor being able to withstand the cost of having humans review Apps going into their stores, nor do I see any players who could afford it have an incentive to do so if they can just push users to an App Store they don't have deal with in this way. For instance, I couldn't find any indication that the Amazon AppStore has any human intervention for the reviewing of applications submitted [0][1], and not without issues[2]. Notoriously, Google is automating everything they can about the app review process, across both Google Play and The Chrome WebStore[3][4] and its a dumpster fire[5]. Comparing this to the iOS App Store, its at least a league cut above the rest here, and there are many justified criticisms and problems with it as well. I think what we need is firm transparency of app store policies, and frankly I think App Review should include more about what code is exactly the issue (or at least, what APIs aren't being used correctly, or what have you), and give specific, detailed examples, rather than often undetailed responses that help nobody through the submission process. The hostility here is the problem, as with other issues that are re-occurent recently, I think Apple wins by providing more transparency and less opaque in the process. I don't know if the consumer really wants an alternative app store (I know developers do, but thats really not the question at the end of the day, if Apple suitably changes course on managing the existing store) I don't think its competition thats the problem, as we've seen on Android, it doesn't show merit that this actually makes things better, or that consumers are really interested in having this competition in the space. [0]https://developer.amazon.com/docs/app-submission/understanding-submission.html#overview-of-the-app-submission-process https://developer.amazon.com/docs/app-submission/understandi... [1]Granted, I read through their docs, and I never saw any reference to a "reviewer". Everything about this makes it sound like an automated API that runs a bunch of tests, responds back to you with failures, rinse and repeat. Not saying this is bad, but its worthwhile to consider, perhaps [2]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/amazon-appstore-game-developer-pulls-app-highlights-problems/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/amazon-appstore-game... [3]https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-gen-08 https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-gen-08 [4]https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/02/15/tasker-briefly-disappears-from-the-play-store-due-to-automated-removal/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/02/15/tasker-briefly-disa... [5]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41111992/google-play-android-review-process https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41111992/google-play-and...