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> To my surprise, I got an email saying that my app is similar to other apps on the app store and that it is considered spam. Literally. Please tell me this is

• busymom0 5y ago
  Apple applies their rules entirely arbitrarily. For example- they have rules for app update release notes required to be detailed and rejects small developers apps with generic template update notes. Meanwhile larger developers like fAcebook, Google, uber etc regularly put the same generic update notes.
• arp242 5y ago
  In principle it's not necessarily that bad; does an app store really gets better with 1,000 hangman apps? Probably not. And let's face it: there's a lot of "app spam". The problem is that 1) it seems enforced unevenly at best and this doesn't seem like "spam" at all, and 2) it's hard to bypass the Apple-curated app store. Apple can have all the rules in their app store they want – I don't really care – as long as they don't prevent me from running the software I want. It's that part that I find far more objectionable. I don't agree with all the takes the Debian people have on their Free Software guidelines either, and that's not a problem at all because Debian isn't trying to prevent me from running any software I want! Even the more hard-line Free Software-only distros aren't preventing me from installing non-free software (they may not facilitate it or make it easy, but that's different from actively preventing it). Or more eloquently: It's my bloody phone and I want to run whatever software I fucking want.
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