Have they tried making the people have a hair color that is between the accepted and rejected ones? Bisect the acceptance/rejection continuum.
That assumes that the hair color thing was their real reason. I doubt it.
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#12I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.
Until people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like.
The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
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#13I'm fed up with this nanny state app store model. As a hacker I feel like I have an obligation to fight this trend. I'm committed to a couple of iOS projects right now but when they wrap I'm going to take a very hard look at getting back on the open web.
> nanny state app store
It's not the state.
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#14I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.
Until people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like. The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
source?
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#15Someone needs to be fired over this.
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#16Is there a chance this was an accident?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like. The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
source?
Here's a source from 2011: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-02-23/industries/307024...
> Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, added that the company runs its App Store and iTunes store “just a little over break-even,” to counter claims that the company is trying to use apps to drive up its profits.
saurik has also written a few comments about this - see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155998
> ...despite their massive volume, Apple's App Store makes sufficiently little profit that they don't even break it out as a separate line item on their 10-Q (instead lumping it under "music related products and services", the same category that handles both iTunes and iBooks)
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like. The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
source?
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#19"The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store." This article was originally posted on June 6th. It's now June 29th. After 23 days, this issue is still not resolved. I'm not a user of the app or a fan, but I find this incredibly curious and sadly opaque.
this issue is still not resolved
Not exactly. Apple's guidelines state that they do not want more "apps such as fart, burp, flashlight and Kama Sutra apps". So, this issue is resolved in the sense that Apple has successfully booted this app out of the App Store. Game over.
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#20I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.
I'm not sure why you think Apple cares so much about developers. Is it the warm glow they engineer for you at WWDC?
Your question is perfectly natural, of course, given the way they flatter us developers in their keynotes. Just don't get caught in the reality distortion field. I've spent a lot of time working with Apple during good times and bad (for them), and even during bad times, the attitude toward third-party developers was that, if they weren't loyal followers, Apple didn't want them around anyway.
I was astonished to hear this kind of thing repeatedly at Apple HQ back when I thought they should have been desperately trying to woo developers to save their platform from extinction. Now that they are on top of the world, imagine what their (real) attitude must be toward third-party developers.
It's like the old Saturday Night Live parody of the phone company, when AT&T was still a monopoly: "We're the phone company. We don't care. We don't have to."