[realusername]

They won't provide any rationale the same way a justice court in a dictatorship doesn't need to refer to actual laws to justify their decision.

The appstore process is arbitrary by design, to keep power inside the company.

[saagarjha]

I mean, even a court doesn't publish all the deliberation that goes into arriving at a decision. They prepare a final verdict and deliver it–while it would be interesting to see, we have reasons we don't post things like "juror 2 thinks what you did was barely legal".

[troupo]

Courts at least try to justify these decisions with supporting documents, evidence, and links to precedent. Apple just rejects, or approves, or approves and rejects and often cannot say why.

[saagarjha]

Sure. But I don't think them showing their internal discussions would help solve the problem here, because their internal discussion is likely to be inconsistent and poorly documented.

[jdiez17]

I downvoted you because you only emotionalized OP’s point without addressing the reply above.

[realusername]

I answered the reply above, they will never provide any answer because it's opaque by design. It's not an oversight, it's how it's meant to be.

Then it's not emotional, it's a rational analysis of what's going on, there's a lot of money at stake here for Apple.