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Who's In Charge Of Apple App Store? Anyone?

18 points by FluidDjango 17y ago

ROFISH 17y ago
I had my own small experience with multiple personalities when submitting my game. I used the back button image meant for rewinding as an undo button. I submitted the full version and free version at the same time. The full version got accepted and the free version denied for "Rewind button only meant for rewinding media like audio/video. Please change and resubmit." I didn't care so much about the rules, it was the additional one week wait as I had to get in the back of the line for a small change.
- die_sekte 17y ago
  I have the feeling that Apple's approval team consists of three factions: (a) Those who approve nearly anything; (b) those who search for a way to access some kind of inappropriate material with the app; (c) perfectionists who want an app to function exactly like the HIG specifies. (a) makes up 20-30%, (b) 60% and (c) 10-20%.
  - FluidDjango 17y ago
    And that's the problem with bureaucracies making technological decisions: it's nearly impossible to achieve consistency - and thus the sort of predictability that enables developers to hit the moving target of acceptance by the bureacracy.
crux 17y ago
It's clear that the App Store is seriously broken. Every week we hear some new horror story, and they cover a distressingly wide range of types of brokenness. It's even clear, to an extent, what needs to be improved; better or more reasonable standards, for one, but the biggest issue, with a bullet, is transparency (as someone who deals with Apple regularly in a professional context I can say sadly that these are issues that Apple needs to improve on in more than one aspect of their business; their consumer face is magnificently polished but a lot of their corporate back end, so to speak, stinks). What's truly distressing is that there's absolutely no indication as to whether these ARE in fact being addressed—or even if they're being ignored. The App Store and its machinations are so opaque—and so inconsistently so—that just as developers are left in the dark when they submit an app, the community as a whole is totally in the dark about the state of the Store and its many discontents. We have no real idea if Apple has heard us, and whether they care if so; we have no idea if there are any improvements afoot or not, so we sort of sit in uneasy darkness. There's the half-formed notion that tomorrow they might unveil a fully-formed, totally overhauled App Store protocol that nobody knew was coming. But of course, there's also the notion that they won't.

18 points by FluidDjango 17y ago

I had my own small experience with multiple personalities when submitting my game. I used the back button image meant for rewinding as an undo button. I submitted the full version and free version at the same time. The full version got accepted and the free version denied for "Rewind button only meant for rewinding media like audio/video. Please change and resubmit." I didn't care so much about the rules, it was the additional one week wait as I had to get in the back of the line for a small change.

die_sekte 17y ago
I have the feeling that Apple's approval team consists of three factions: (a) Those who approve nearly anything; (b) those who search for a way to access some kind of inappropriate material with the app; (c) perfectionists who want an app to function exactly like the HIG specifies. (a) makes up 20-30%, (b) 60% and (c) 10-20%.
- FluidDjango 17y ago
  And that's the problem with bureaucracies making technological decisions: it's nearly impossible to achieve consistency - and thus the sort of predictability that enables developers to hit the moving target of acceptance by the bureacracy.

crux 17y ago

It's clear that the App Store is seriously broken. Every week we hear some new horror story, and they cover a distressingly wide range of types of brokenness. It's even clear, to an extent, what needs to be improved; better or more reasonable standards, for one, but the biggest issue, with a bullet, is transparency (as someone who deals with Apple regularly in a professional context I can say sadly that these are issues that Apple needs to improve on in more than one aspect of their business; their consumer face is magnificently polished but a lot of their corporate back end, so to speak, stinks). What's truly distressing is that there's absolutely no indication as to whether these ARE in fact being addressed—or even if they're being ignored. The App Store and its machinations are so opaque—and so inconsistently so—that just as developers are left in the dark when they submit an app, the community as a whole is totally in the dark about the state of the Store and its many discontents. We have no real idea if Apple has heard us, and whether they care if so; we have no idea if there are any improvements afoot or not, so we sort of sit in uneasy darkness. There's the half-formed notion that tomorrow they might unveil a fully-formed, totally overhauled App Store protocol that nobody knew was coming. But of course, there's also the notion that they won't.