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by k310
901 days ago
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Apple rejected our stand-alone free companion app “because it doesn’t do anything”. That is because users are required to login with an existing account to use the functionality.
This is a ridiculous charge. The App Store is filled with high-profile applications that require an existing service account and simply presents a login screen when first launched. Here are just four:
Yes, there are lots of apps that do absolutely nothing until you log in.Not sure if there's something else going on beneath that charge. Maybe DHH needs to take a walk with Tim Cook like the Musk man did. |
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Having had my own app in the store for > 13 years, and shipping hundreds of other updates for various apps (if you follow any major sports, you likely have some of my code on your phone), Apple provides developers with an option to provide reviewers with details about how to use a test account or another way to access services.
Further, you can ship for approval well ahead of release, and schedule when it goes public in the store. You can even update it before that scheduled release and ship the more refined version on the originally scheduled date.
Sending it off to Apple in the week leading up to Christmas is amateur hour. Anyone that’s been in the app industry knows that Apple (corporate, not stores) basically shuts down the entire week leading up to the holiday.
This is pithy complaining by DHH.