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This article makes a fair point. Whether AppGratis breaks the guidelines or not - Apple did act in a very unprofessional manner. They could have waited a day

This article makes a fair point. Whether AppGratis breaks the guidelines or not - Apple did act in a very unprofessional manner. They could have waited a day or two and given the CEO a right to respond before pulling it. But this is the risk you take when you build a Business around Apple's app store - any intelligent investors and employees should have known the risks, before committing to AppGratis. As a sidenote, I'm really struggling to compute how AppGratis has 45 members of staff - whichever way I look at it (developers, sales, accounts) I can't see them needing more than 10.

asmosoinio 14y ago
> As a sidenote, I'm really struggling to compute how AppGratis has 45 members of staff - whichever way I look at it (developers, sales, accounts) I can't see them needing more than 10. Care to share your back of the envelope calculations on this...?
- planetjones 14y ago
  Definitely back of a cigaratte packet. But they're not writing the apps so it's just a front end, website and some discovery code - presumably the infrastructure is cloud managed... Maybe if I'm a little more realistic: 5 developers, 5 sales people, 3 managers, 3 to configure / manage the infrastructure, 2 to manage admin and accounts. So 18 people ? Struggling to get to 45... These free app apps sound a bit like a Bubble - aren't they the Groupon, Living Social, etc. of the day ? EDIT: For translating the languages everyday are we really saying they would be full time members of AppGratis staff - wouldn't this be outsourced somewhere.
  - jacquesm 14y ago
    How about creating content in a whole pile of languages every day again and again?
  - kornifex 14y ago
    I was told they have a lot of business people working to close deals with the apps developers. Also, doesn't he mention they have a 10 people engineering team? And if you had to that all the people who are in different country to meet with developers all around the world, I think that it can add up to 45…
- tiglionabbit 14y ago
  I'm sure most of those people are there to review apps and write recommendations in various languages.
aeonflux 14y ago
What they should wait for? What was CEO suppose to do during those 1-2 days? Pivot the business model entirely? What is the reason Apple should give them special threatment? AppGratis can still pivot into something different and submit the app again. Like everybody, I feel sorry for the people, but thats how the life works. It's not like the decision was unfair. Business model they had was pretty crappy anyway. They were trying to skew the Apple's ranking for money.
autoreverse 14y ago
Perhaps they aren't all full time?

asmosoinio 14y ago

> As a sidenote, I'm really struggling to compute how AppGratis has 45 members of staff - whichever way I look at it (developers, sales, accounts) I can't see them needing more than 10. Care to share your back of the envelope calculations on this...?

planetjones 14y ago
Definitely back of a cigaratte packet. But they're not writing the apps so it's just a front end, website and some discovery code - presumably the infrastructure is cloud managed... Maybe if I'm a little more realistic: 5 developers, 5 sales people, 3 managers, 3 to configure / manage the infrastructure, 2 to manage admin and accounts. So 18 people ? Struggling to get to 45... These free app apps sound a bit like a Bubble - aren't they the Groupon, Living Social, etc. of the day ? EDIT: For translating the languages everyday are we really saying they would be full time members of AppGratis staff - wouldn't this be outsourced somewhere.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  How about creating content in a whole pile of languages every day again and again?
- kornifex 14y ago
  I was told they have a lot of business people working to close deals with the apps developers. Also, doesn't he mention they have a 10 people engineering team? And if you had to that all the people who are in different country to meet with developers all around the world, I think that it can add up to 45…
tiglionabbit 14y ago
I'm sure most of those people are there to review apps and write recommendations in various languages.

aeonflux 14y ago

What they should wait for? What was CEO suppose to do during those 1-2 days? Pivot the business model entirely? What is the reason Apple should give them special threatment? AppGratis can still pivot into something different and submit the app again. Like everybody, I feel sorry for the people, but thats how the life works. It's not like the decision was unfair. Business model they had was pretty crappy anyway. They were trying to skew the Apple's ranking for money.

autoreverse 14y ago

Perhaps they aren't all full time?