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Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by Causality1 »

rgovostes wrote: post #39

> I’m just an indie developer trying to make good products. Apple should separate Rambo's software development from his reporting rather than retaliate against him, if that is indeed what is happening, but it is a little disingenuous for him to make the above claim. Rambo reverse engineers Apple products and publishes findings on 9to5Mac.com, in particular future product references that have slipped prematurely into…

Seems very foolish to break the developer agreement without keeping yourself anonymous. It's his own fault that Apple was able to connect his account with an individual breaking their terms of service.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #109
mortenjorck wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process. This is indeed the core of the problem. If Apple provided a clear citation, e.g. “the following protected information was shared under your name at this URL on this date, which violates section xyz of your developer agreement,” it would still be unfortunate, but it would be miles ahead of Apple’s maddening “for more informatio…

This is an issue with a lot of companies and industries. It's getting really old, and I really hope we see it happen to actual senators so we can see some damn change over it. I'd love to read about how Paypal shutdown some senators account or campaign donation account or whatever, maybe then we will see congress start to turn tables. If you're going to discontinue service with a client then provide proper background…

Note that for certain financial services, perhaps including PayPal, they may not legally be allowed to explain why they closed your account.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by saagarjha »

cmcd wrote: post #151
atonse wrote: post #68

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Said it better than I could've – there are some pretty obvious reasons why Rambo's account could've been suspended, the clear violation of NDAs being the main one, with him publishing information about unreleased products. I'm honestly kind of surprised they let him keep his Developer account all this time. My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process. It's this kind of stu…

with regards to the App Store being the only way to get apps on iOS The App Store is the only Apple supported way to release apps, there are unsupported third party app stores as well. Lack of transparency is not good, but I'm not sure what the issue is with there being only one officially supported way to download apps. It is Apple's product and software, they are selling the "Apple Experience" as much as the hardwa…

Apple would very much like that there was no way to jailbreak your device. It's not like they've purposefully left an "out" to install unauthorized software.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by saagarjha »

Causality1 wrote: post #221
rgovostes wrote: post #39

> I’m just an indie developer trying to make good products. Apple should separate Rambo's software development from his reporting rather than retaliate against him, if that is indeed what is happening, but it is a little disingenuous for him to make the above claim. Rambo reverse engineers Apple products and publishes findings on 9to5Mac.com, in particular future product references that have slipped prematurely into…

Seems very foolish to break the developer agreement without keeping yourself anonymous. It's his own fault that Apple was able to connect his account with an individual breaking their terms of service.

To my knowledge, Apple has not gone after people doing this in the past.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by arbitcoin »

cmcd wrote: post #162
arbitcoin wrote: post #141

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Perhaps Rambo did violate Apple's terms, I don't know. However, this is still a major problem. Apple has currently locked me out of my account due to their new authentication process in at attempt to force me to buy an apple device for authentication purposes.

OS X and iOS development both require Apple hardware anyways, so shouldn't you have that as a developer?

I got around this by deving on virtual machine.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by TheRealPomax »

dkonofalski wrote: post #55
dewey wrote: post #15

Because 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...

So he violated the developer agreements and now is complaining that his developer account is suspended? How is that Apple's fault? Considering the suspension emails and other info are automated, it's likely that he missed them or they went into his spam somehow.

I think it's more a complain about the radio silence.

Hoping they reinstate the account feels a bit like a pipe dream given his activity on 5to9mac, and I'm sure Apple was entirely in the right to suspend his account, but he should have been able to discover that in days, r even immediately upon trying to log in (it's not hard to say "this account has been locked because:..." instead of just "this account has been locked") rather than "never being told".

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by pier25 »

fjabre wrote: post #199

Ah the joys of being subjected to a dictator's whim. Apple can do as it wants when it wants for any reason it wants to regarding that app you may have poured a year of your life into. Our profitable SaaS web app has 1000s of paying users and those apps also run very well on mobile safari. We made a decision a long time ago as a company never to invest in iOS because of Apple's dictator like policies. We may develop a…

Totally agree.

MacOS dev is also going down the hill considering all the uncertainity about developing for the platform (deprecations, transitions to new SDKs and language, etc).

For example it would seem ObjC and Cocoa will be abandoned one day. When? In 2 years? 5 years? When will OpenGL not be distributed with macOS?

It would seem the safe bet is switching to SwiftUI for macOS but as of today you lose support for most macOS users. Plus SwiftUI is not ready for prime time yet from all the complaints I've read.

I was planning on working on a macOS exclusive product but for many reasons (including some of the points you have mentioned) this doesn't seem a wise decision at all.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by saagarjha »

dkonofalski wrote: post #114
sanxiyn wrote: post #73

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Since it sometimes does help, "it never helps" is false. Lying is usually considered a bad manner.

Except it doesn't. In nearly every case where a decision by Apple was reversed, it was internal communications with the affected party that led to the resolution. I would love a source that said that bad-mouthing Apple to the media resulted in the outcome they wanted.

Running to the press is a sure way to get Apple to stop ignoring you.

Re: Apple has locked me out of my developer account

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Post by scarface74 »

ebiester wrote: post #174
FussyZeus wrote: post #142

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They can. But why should they? What's the benefit?

Because it is in their long term interest - seeing the way Apple and Google treat developers has stopped me, at the very least, from putting time into learning their ecosystems and choosing it for a side project. It may be true that there are plenty of people who will replace me, but the aggregate effect can eventually hurt their marketplaces.

Do you really think they care if Joe Random doesn’t develop for their platform? They care about the big companies like Microsoft, Adobe, etc developing for it.

Big companies don’t take a moral stand when it comes to what platform to target. It’s all about where the money is.

Companies don’t make decisions for petty reasons. There is a reason that Google, Amazon and Microsoft develop for iOS even while they compete against Apple.

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