> Apple always says that "running to the press doesn't help" This is a bald faced lie, so you must ignore it.
I dunno if it’s a lie, maybe they believe it, but certainly reality suggests the opposite.
Apple has locked me out of my developer account
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Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account
#12What a strange predicament. Perhaps a naive question, but is it possible to create a new developer's account and then request a transfer of your apps? Given that you have the sources & password to old account etc.
I don’t think that would work if you can’t log into one of the accounts.
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#13> Apple always says that "running to the press doesn't help" This is a bald faced lie, so you must ignore it.
Companies absolutely hate bad publicity. Also, what have you got to lose at this point. Good luck.
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#14Brutal, the frustration is palpable. Forgive my mobile engineering ignorance, but does developing on Android pose similar risks or is control less centralized to Google?
If anything the threat to Android developers is much worse, because of Google's habit of banning entire google accounts for any infraction.
Recently, hundreds of people had their entire Google accounts banned (with that ban upheld on appeal) because they were sending a lot of emotes (By request!) to a streamer's chat.
These people lost everything. Emails. Everything in their Google Drive. Over totally normal behaviour.
Using a separate Google account to do your app development doesn't help, because they ban accounts they suspect to belong to the same person as well.
So yes, the danger exists for Android developers too, and is much larger in scope.
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#15Because it's not mentioned in the article but could be hint on why this happened (could also be entirely irrelevant).
It's the guy who brought us a bunch of early iOS 13 leaks among other things: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/164/interview-guil...
Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account
#16Because it's not mentioned in the article but could be hint on why this happened (could also be entirely irrelevant). It's the guy who brought us a bunch of early iOS 13 leaks among other things: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/164/interview-guil...
That seems most likely...
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#17This developer is also a journalist who has written many scoops on Apple's upcoming hardware and software:
https://9to5mac.com/author/guirambobr/
This may be why Apple is upset. Is it justified?
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#18Brutal, the frustration is palpable. Forgive my mobile engineering ignorance, but does developing on Android pose similar risks or is control less centralized to Google?
I recall seeing a few stories on here in the past few months regarding people's apps disappearing from Google Play and Google's support providing no real "support".
Would you happen to have a link? I'm going through the same thing, and support is no help.
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#19Brutal, the frustration is palpable. Forgive my mobile engineering ignorance, but does developing on Android pose similar risks or is control less centralized to Google?
You don't need a Google Account to release an app on Android, but it won't be via Google Play.
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#20Slightly unrelated, but in the Developer portal, you can only create 5 of the "Developer ID Application" certificates per developer team. When you want to generate another one past 5, there is no option to revoke old certificates nor is there an option to ask for an increase.
I had to contact developer support asking them to revoke the old ones so that I could generate a new one (since the past keys had been lost to MacOS wipes); but it took over two months between Dev support asking the product security team for assistance, and the Product Security team not responding, before they finally made an exception and allowed my account to generate one more certificate. I realize I should have backed up the previous keys (as I have done for this most recent one), but I find it odd you can't revoke existing certificates.