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App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by LtWorf »

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #60
smoldesu wrote: post #26

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I think Apple has every right to tighten up their first-party App Store, but they should also acknowledge the user's right to install what they want. Maybe some people do want a "too simple" app, and I don't think Apple has the right to tell the user what is-and-isn't appropriate. It's common sense. This would be a great time for them to add a Developer Mode a-la Android, and also start purging their own shopfronts.…

> Maybe some people do want a "too simple" app In fact, aren't these preferable? I just want a weather app that shows me the current weather and a forecast, without any social bullshit, accounts, ads, etc. Also, if iOS users have that "one app" they can't live without, surely it makes them stickier? Why would Apple want to limit the chances of hitting that spot with their users by curbing the number of apps available…

But with no ads, apple doesn't make money :'(

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by CharlesW »

stale2002 wrote: post #152
CharlesW wrote: post #132

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Anyone can believe anything, but if one is buying products that don't do what they need or want, that seems like a poor use of funds. Example: I can buy an Xbox and curse Microsoft that I can't play The Last of Us on it, but that's really on me.

Well there is an alternative solution. That alternative solution being to force Apple, under threat of legal action and massive fines, to do what we want them to do (using the legal and legislative process).

Giving nation-states control over how Apple runs their business in their countries based on what a tiny sliver of the most technically-adept users wants will somehow engender freedom. Is that the pitch?

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by chocolol »

I had this happen. What they want to see is things that really use the phones features or something that makes it mobile

This frustrated me at first but then i did some thinking and came up with some ideas.

I got mine over the line by having a favorites list that uses core data and the ability to sent notification reminders.

Both are using core aspects of iPhone so more likely to be considered unique enough for App Store.

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by evandale »

LtWorf wrote: post #146
1-6 wrote: post #107

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You probably embarrassed Apple for how simple a camera app can be.

They will probably replicate his design in the future.

Knowing Apple it's probably in the works already and that's the reason the app was rejected.

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by Bud »

otikik wrote: post #133
Bud wrote: post #113

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The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings. Apple absolutely has the right to control what apps are available on its store, and what apps are not. This isn't about what is "appropriate"; you just made that up. This also has nothing to do with "common sense", or at least what you think is common sense.

> The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings. If I own a gadget, I own it. That means that I _have the right_ to do whatever I want with it, including jailbreaking it, disassembling it, or throwing it from a cliff. Apple might not like it, and might take punitive action. Void the warranty, maybe even cancel your Apple account. But they can not send me to jail.

Relax. Nobody is talking about sending you to jail.

What's at issue is whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want, in their App Store. And you don't. It's really that simple.

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by dymk »

andrepd wrote: post #147
cowtools wrote: post #47

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>Ran into the exact same problem with a very simple camera app I made. >[...] >(Just by posting this, now I fear I broke some kind of TOS, and can never publish an iOS app again?) This is how your loyalty to Apple's racket is rewarded. This is your prize for buying hundreds of dollars of their equipment and paying hundreds to license their development kit and get your software reviewed for their locked-down phones.

But it's okay because [vague arguments about "protection" and "privacy"]

They’re not vague, they’re documented and substantial.

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by elwell »

Chrome Web Store has the opposite view: your extension can get rejected if it has more than one purpose.

Our extension got taken down that replaced all in-page ads with ads from our network while paying the user in a certain Ethereum token for every ad impression they see. The ostensible rejection reason being that it both replaced ads & served as a crypto wallet.

Re: App Store doesn't accept “too simple” apps

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Post by projektfu »

cortesoft wrote: post #100
joeld42 wrote: post #4

I don't agree with apple that this should be rejected, but it does seem like something that would work better as a web app. Also then it would be available to people on other platforms as well.

I honestly sometimes wish apple had kept to its original plan of only having web apps instead of native apps. I hate constantly being told to download some app for something that works perfectly fine as a website.

Especially when they decided to deliberately break the web app to get you on the app.
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