[judge2020]

> review and approval are done by poorly trained contractors

That's the "middle ground" scenario that isn't true for either side. Apple does directly hire employees to do this, so their policies and rules are often the pain point. Google doesn't hire anyone - they have the team that runs the approval systems and will review certain extensions, but it's completely automated for 99% of all cases.

The only people that probably do use contractors are Amazon for their Alexa skills and Kindle apps.

[fragmede]

Apple has contractors as second-class employees, same as the rest of the valley.