[sxg]

He recorded and released a phone conversation with an Apple representative that confirms a lot of the details of this story. Sure not everything is clear, but if I'm remembering right, the phone call confirmed that Kapeli and his family member used the same distribution account, and that the family member bought fake app reviews. Apple banned the whole account because of the fake app reviews, but they did give Kapeli recourse and offered to reinstate his app if he publicly apologized and cleared up the issue. Kapeli decided not to do that and released the private phone call with the Apple representative instead. I'm pretty sure that killed any chance of Dash getting back on the app store.

[pkamb]

> Kapeli decided not to [publicly apologize and clear up the issue] and released the private phone call with the Apple representative instead.

Kapeli wrote the blog post Apple requested and sent it in for review. https://kapeli.com/apple_draft

Apple never got back to him, and instead went to the press with statements that did not mention any of the circumstances, making clear that this was their final statement on the matter. Only then did Kapeli come out with his side of the story and the recorded phone call.

[johansch]

That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward, even after bending backwards to work with him.

(And I'm really not an Apple apologist; please do checkout my post history if you're so inclined.)

[AsyncAwait]

> That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward,

Mind explaining it to us, I don't understand Apple's reasoning here after they said to him to send them the blog post.

[_pr]

He ran his mouth one more time.

[AsyncAwait]

Between sending out the blog post draft and Apple speaking to the press? Can you link me to that please, just curious.