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What Apple policy bans Qt-based apps from the App Store?
by wizee 4y ago
What Apple policy bans Qt-based apps from the App Store?
- atonse 4y agoSorry, you were looking for any kind of consistency or actually well written rules or consistent, rational, or timely enforcement of said rules? I haven’t seen it. Only the US DoJ or FTC could make a dent in this joke of a review process.
- capitainenemo 4y agoThe reason given was that it needed to use a native GUI toolkit. I don't know why this was the case. Maintaining separate GUIs for Linux, Windows and OSX was definitely not practical though.
- wizee 4y agoWhen was this rejection? They don’t have any rule like this currently, and the App Store is full of apps not using Cocoa/Carbon/SwiftUI.
- capitainenemo 4y agoShortly after launch of the app store. It was posted within a month or two of launch, and pulled about six months later. I feel like enforcement is rather random though. It seems like submitting updates draws their attention. But you could be right. It may be it's a rule they abandoned. In any case I don't think there's anyone around with the heart to try again.
- wizee 4y agoAh, yeah, there was a rule requiring apps to use a native GUI toolkit when the App Store first launched over a decade ago, but that rule is no longer there.
- capitainenemo 4y agoHas it been that long? Time flies. Regrettably the person with the time, energy and familiarity to invest into OSX is now gone. Oh well.
- simlevesque 4y agoThey have every rule you can think of but don't always apply them.