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by pwinnski 1992 days ago
Your frame of reference is the number of times a T1 made a bad call.

Apple's frame of reference is the number of times a T1 made any call.

So let's say they've made hundreds of bad calls. Is that out of thousands of decisions, or millions? Or tens of millions?

If tens of thousands of apps are banned, but only hundreds are banned incorrectly, that doesn't suggest the same thing as if a large percentage of bans are later reversed.

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It's not about the number of decisions they've made, it's specifically about decisions to ban Apps that were already approved to the store.

How many Apps are banned after having been approved? I would certainly hope they haven't had to ban thousands, millions or tens of millions of Apps after they had approved them to the store. That would speak to a very big problem with the initial review process that admits an App into the store.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were tens of thousands.

Clever scammers play a long game, and at Apple's scale, they deal with a lot of them.