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I doubt 'review' is ever going away. There's too much value to be gained by having a vetted store that consumers trust. And there's no way to kill review and
by roc 17y ago
I doubt 'review' is ever going away. There's too much value to be gained by having a vetted store that consumers trust. And there's no way to kill review and retain that trust.
We hear about the times 'review' gets it wrong. But, by definition, we'll never hear about the times they're right. How many times they catch showstoppers or seedy code. (something I think they're looking for, far more diligently than we typically give them credit for)
I'm sure Apple wants to polish and apply their policies more consistently. But ultimately only they know how often 'review' kicks out a false positives. So only they know whether the right thing to fix at this time really is policy consistency (vs getting more bodies in the group, developing better code-analysis tools, etc)
It sure sounds like policy is easy to fix, but how many times have we seen false positives for things that are clearly allowed or have been previously allowed for some time? Even if the policy magically covered every possible situation, getting several hundred new hires to apply it consistently across hundreds of thousands of submissions is still a problem. And one of under-appreciated scope.
- gcheong 17y ago"And there's no way to kill review and retain that trust." I don't think most users trust the app store because they know every app has been vetted. I think they trust it mainly because we haven't seen large number of users getting burned - and not because Apple is vetting each app but rather because it is in the developer's interest not to burn their customers.