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Yeah, if you want to get notifications when people interact with your site.
Because there is no such thing like mail?
Mail =/= notifications.
A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
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Re: A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
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> They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. I don’t understand why you think that’s dumb. This is what people who download the app will do, so they’re trying out real scenarios that will happen. They don’t want to have there be a segment on the nightly news saying, “App Store Full of Porn!” Which is what will happen in the…
> . This is what people who download the app will do, so they’re trying out real scenarios that will happen let's ban browsers then or chat apps or sharing apps and why not apps in general that play images and videos and that enable people to send aforementioned images and videos? you know what? now that I think about it, let's ban the smart (computing) part from iPhone. but let's not stop there, let's ban the phone…
> let's ban browsers then or chat apps or sharing apps
This would be Apple's dream.
Latest headlines? Here's Apple News.
Movie trailers? Don't have those, but here's Apple TV +
Online gaming? Apple Arcade.
Re: A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
#163> In the case of Tumblr, this would be a reviewer going to search, typing in something like 'tits’ and finding porn. Just want to emphasize this part. App Store Reviewers are completely asinine. Like, dumb as a rock. It’d almost be funny if their stupidity didn’t block your app approval. To be explicitly clear: if your app contains UGC, they will explicitly go and search for things to ding you on, and then fault you…
> They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. If your app runs scripts, they’ll try downloading something and then yell at you for letting them do it This is all just fictional garbage, which you totally made-up. I’ve been through hundreds of app reviews, and if a problem is ever found (rarely) the reviews are always polite,…
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If your point happens to be correct, this is particularly important, because by posting like this you end up discrediting it. Your comment would be just fine without the first and third paragraphs.
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Re: A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
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The other side of this coin are apps that blatantly show banners on opening them to go to their website and purchase a subscription for cheaper. I reported one such app a few times to Apple (using the new report an issue feature on the App Store). It’s probably been at least a couple of months, and that app still continues to do the same. It’s very clear that the rules are arbitrary and are not enforced uniformly. Ap…
Why are you supporting apple and the 30% cut they take? Why do you as a user want apple to continue this? We are developing a system for our client where their users have to buy a one time token to use it. The tokens are bought from the client's web shop. The iphone and android apps are webviews that contain the website. This was the only sane way to develop the apps because otherwise we would have to constantly deal…
As a user, I want to be able to easily manage all of my subscriptions from one place in my device's Settings app and not have the experience I recently had trying to cancel my NYTimes subscription where I had to call, remain on hold for 35 minutes, and then have to:
1, submit to the rep's questioning about why I want to cancel, 2, argue with them over how sure I was about wanting to cancel, 3, refuse their discounted offers,
before I was permitted to finally cancel.
As a developer I get why other devs want more freedom regarding how they get paid for their apps/services, but as a user I have absolutely had it with these kinds of abusive practices that will surely follow if Apple allows them to happen.
Re: A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process
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> the developer can influence the perceived value of their smaller or newer application by influence you mean "conform"?
No. This goes back to the original soft skills comment. Developers who can convince app review that they have a solid and trustworthy process, and more successfully escalate and have conversations about the review process, and frame their app differently to change the perspective of review, are able to get more interesting USG into their app (the opposite of conforming.) The problem, as I said earlier, is that indies…
The escalation path mentioned in the original post ("developer support contact", I think more officially a Worldwide Developer Relations Partnership Manager) is invite-only.