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by sliqqq 38 days ago
Bro i feel you so much! i am developing an app aimed at Intel Macs, but i cannot even publish it, because you need a Silicon mac to use the Apple Developer Program. It's so unbelievable brainless. The market still holds 10-20% intel devices, especially outside the US and in some high-end environments, where 128GB RAM machines cannot easily be replaced with a silicon mac.

Sometimes it feels like Apple has no clue how their users actually work and what the industry needs.

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I just went through this with a small paid macOS menu bar app. The hardest part was not the code, it was figuring out which app store rules I had accidentally stepped on- app name wording, accessibility permission assumptions, and even cmd+q behavior.

The review did eventually pass, but the process felt much more fragile than shipping the product itself and i had to remove one key feature of the app as well for the review to pass.