An interesting spin of the story would be if Apple announced an intel to arm migration kit called "Mignori" next week at WWDC...
Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
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Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#22This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…
That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup.
I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never go back to a walled garden, no matter how appealing it may seem from the outside.
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#23Startup idea for anyone who is interested: Paid customer service where the customer pays money (say $100-$1k depending on how serious the issue is) and each company can have a special channel to respond to these paid requests and be compensated (say 80% of the fee the customer pays). That way companies will have the will and ability to attend to serious issues and filter them out from the "useless" customer requests…
This is how the Microsoft paid support channel works: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4341255/support-for...
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#24This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…
I say this little tongue in cheek but it's time to make a www.helpXisthreatningme.com (where X is Google play store, Chrome store, Apple store) and I'm sure it will have at least dozens of new stories like this everyday.
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#25This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…
If Apple doesn't back down, they should be broken up by the DOJ into a phone/hardware company and an iOS/Mac/Services company. The same should happen to Google with search, Chrome, and Android. You can't use dozens of entire markets as your product moat.
i generally agree (and the same goes for amazon). But let's not mix everything, otherwise we'll get no result. I believe there is a real momentum at the moment on the "app store" issue, and we should focus 100% on that until we get some result (then we'll move to the next one).
I hope it's not going to be a talk about which commission rate is fair, because it completely misses the point. If apple wants to charge 30% commission for being able to distribute on the store, use their development tools, their apis, and have people pay using apple, fine. But just let my customers free to install my software on the hardware they own the way they want to.
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#26This title could really benefit from some punctuation.
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#27The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…
> TestFlight is a dev tool. Its not for production deployment. Its meant for beta testing.
If that's the case, surely the better action would be for Apple to just remove the app from Testflight (and maybe reset the list so testers have to sign up again)?
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#28Startup idea for anyone who is interested: Paid customer service where the customer pays money (say $100-$1k depending on how serious the issue is) and each company can have a special channel to respond to these paid requests and be compensated (say 80% of the fee the customer pays). That way companies will have the will and ability to attend to serious issues and filter them out from the "useless" customer requests…
The companies that want to sell dedicated support and the people who want to buy it are already selling and buying it. And since, outside of FOSS that the customer controls hosting of, and some other special cases, only the original vendor, with whom the user will have interacted to get the software, will be able to provide support, so there's not a lot of matchmaking/discovery to be done to justify a middleman taking a cut.
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#29This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed. It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't li…
Even if it weren't the only option, the sad reality is that, for most, it'd be financial suicide to not be on the App Store.
Compare that to games on PC: even though competition has fortunately started to pick up recently, it'd still be madness not to publish on Steam.
All platforms seem to naturally tend towards monopoly, with an enormous first mover advantage. I wish I knew of a solution :/
Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
#30> I know of developers who were instantly terminated and all their apps removed. Luckily this has not happened to me.
Well there you have it. The rest of devs will be happy they're still under Apple's wing, and nothing will change.