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If the App Store is meant to have some sort of quality control to justify it’s existence, then yes, they should reject apps this buggy. They want to have healt

If the App Store is meant to have some sort of quality control to justify it’s existence, then yes, they should reject apps this buggy. They want to have health as a major feature of their platforms. To do that, they have an interest in making sure the most important health apps aren’t garbage.

chuckadams 2y ago
From the app's perspective, it's working fine, it's just sending commands that crash the device (and even then, the device recovers, but then it gets sent into a boot loop that drains the battery). Does Apple then need to test the app with the actual device, and revalidate it every time the device is updated? Do they need to hire the expertise in medical devices for such review? I'm fine with more stringent requirements on medical apps, but that should be part of the FDA's review process. Their stamp should actually mean something. If it doesn't, the onus to fix it falls on the FDA (and by extension, the body politic). Apple not so much: their responsibility with health apps has more to do with safeguarding the data's privacy than with the reliability of the device. Furthermore, if you think Apple is asleep at the switch when it comes to quality control, why would you give them the oversight responsibility for life-and-death-critical software? They should take a package digitally signed by the FDA, do the additional testing that actually is in their wheelhouse (such as data security) then if it passes, publish it as-is. Otherwise, back to the FDA.