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I’m skeptical the surprise is genuine. The App Store review process has always been an issue. It is slower than Android’s approach, preventing effective stages
by tetrisgm 5y ago
I’m skeptical the surprise is genuine.
The App Store review process has always been an issue. It is slower than Android’s approach, preventing effective stages rollouts. It slows down iteration speed. It forces teams to ship at Apple’s cadence.
Compare the process with the sophistication of a mature devops team for a web app. The App Store is orders of magnitude less effective.
It’s frankly hard to believe that Apple hasn’t had hires in the relevant teams, that came from dev teams that felt bottlenecked by this process.
- andrekandre 5y agoi think a big issue is that apple thinks of apps like actual "things" you can buy on a store shelf whereas just about every app is actually some kind of going concern that needs to deploy anytime and anywhere... it just doesn't scale
- tdeck 5y agoThe app review process has been a black box for years. There have been stories of app developers writing or saying something critical of Apple, then inexplicably their next release gets stuck in a long review or gets declined for a reason that's not related to what has changed. That might be why people are reluctant to complain too loudly, to the extent that the latter is even true.