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I am quite an Apple fan, but this dampens my enthusiasm considerably. How many great apps are rejected, but build by people without reach?

• rpdillon 2mo ago
  Their business model depends on you not looking too closely here. Apple has a lot of legitimate advantages, but they oversell the safety of the App Store quite a bit, and they also have an infamous review process for apps that deliberately hides both the reasoning and any sort of estimation of false positive / false negative rate. Google should have these sort of stats as well, but obviously neither company would publish them. False negatives should be observable by the public. I'm a fan of letting users add repos from vendors they trust, so there isn't one centralized gatekeeper.
  • dinkblam 2mo ago
    overselling the safety is very euphemistic many years ago we made a list of malware apps on the Mac App Store: https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html (yes, the list was made after being disgruntled because totally legitimate apps were refused for nonsense reasons just like in this story)
• Grombobulous 2mo ago
  Just don't be a fan of corporations. Period. Even the good ones, looking at you Valve. Am I happy and satisfied customer of some companies? Yes. Not a fan, though.