[drcube]

Why is the Treehouse CEO saying "Man, this is ridiculous" while still playing along with Apple's bullshit?

Might as well compromise your product and your users to make a few extra bucks, right?

Grow some balls and stand up to your bullies, friend. Your product is popular. People will request it. Keep it off the App Store until Apple comes begging you to submit it again.

[melvinram]

They are not charging extra for the app so it's not "to make a few extra bucks."

They are attempting to do the best job they can for their customers. Depriving your customers because you want to take a principled stand by taking steps that is almostly completely guaranteed to not work just makes no business sense.

[drcube]

So they're going to play censor for "business sense" but it's not about money?

Morals outrank money. And it's not even economically a bad decision on a long enough time scale. What's going to make your company look the best ten years from now? Taking a principled stand against censors, on behalf of your users, while maintaining your product's integrity and vision? Or sacrificing your product in order to temporarily gain a few more IOS users, while Apple continues to make themselves look like malevolent idiots?

If I were a business owner, I know what I'd choose.

[kalms]

It makes zero sense to pull this app just out of principle. Especially when it wouldn't matter to Apple anyway - It would only hurt Treehouse, and the investment they made. The kind of change you're looking for needs to come from policy makers.