It's posts like these that make me very unempathetic to developers who complain about Apple. I'm looking at the screenshots, and I can't understand what the app does nor how the new screenshots are representative of app functionality. However, despite having unclear screenshots, the developer blames Apple's malice when they just want to maintain a standard for users. For many of these developers, Apple is just a bully that stands in the way of them from scamming users.
Apple won't let me show my app
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Re: Apple won't let me show my app
#22It's posts like these that make me very unempathetic to developers who complain about Apple. I'm looking at the screenshots, and I can't understand what the app does nor how the new screenshots are representative of app functionality. However, despite having unclear screenshots, the developer blames Apple's malice when they just want to maintain a standard for users. For many of these developers, Apple is just a bull…
I mean, these issues are exclusive to Apple's App Store. The Mac doesn't have this problem at all.
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#23I once wrote a similar blog post when Apple rejected one of my games for bogus reasons.
Then out of frustration I deleted the submission and re-submitted with no changes except a new version number - that one was approved.
Deleted the blog post lol.
Over the following years I would learn that the App Store review process is random. It depends on who you get. Sometimes the reviewer seems mistaken about things and reject it, and on the other end sometimes they approve a build that has bugs, as if they didn't test it at all.
One time a reviewer accurately caught iPad issues. Apple reviewers love iPad. Make sure your app works on all modern versions.
Also once you get approved the first time, that app will usually get easily approved after that.
For games: They are very unlikely to play through a whole game and find bugs later on (a problem IMO), but they are more likely to use surface level menus and things on a regular app, so in some ways it can be easier to get a faulty game approved where regular apps are held to higher standards.
Re: Apple won't let me show my app
#24I once wrote a similar blog post when Apple rejected one of my games for bogus reasons. Then out of frustration I deleted the submission and re-submitted with no changes except a new version number - that one was approved. Deleted the blog post lol. Over the following years I would learn that the App Store review process is random. It depends on who you get. Sometimes the reviewer seems mistaken about things and reje…
I just gave myself an idea: e2e testing for games
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#25".. in general do a great job of keeping app quality high."
Huh?
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#26Dude. Not even your blog post is clear enough. I had to right click one of the images and open it in another tab in order to be able to discern _anything_ on the image.
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#27If you're ever in the position this developer is in where
"Communicating the idea has always been difficult for this app, and I am happy with my latest attempt through the new screenshots I created."
Then your app either has no value, is too difficult to explain the value, or your communication skills are poor. Whatever the case may be, this might not be the job for you.
Re: Apple won't let me show my app
#28I once wrote a similar blog post when Apple rejected one of my games for bogus reasons. Then out of frustration I deleted the submission and re-submitted with no changes except a new version number - that one was approved. Deleted the blog post lol. Over the following years I would learn that the App Store review process is random. It depends on who you get. Sometimes the reviewer seems mistaken about things and reje…
Has to be random spot-checks and mostly automated scans, the numbers they say on the website would not allow time for exhaustively testing everyone.
> Every week, nearly 500 dedicated experts around the world review over 130K apps.
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#29I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does.
Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge?
Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device?
Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month?
Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan. We're finally getting to what the app does, I think.
Screenshot 6: A phone with a screenshot of prompts. I'm lost again, are you an LLM?
Re: Apple won't let me show my app
#30I'm going to take the side of Apple on this one. Looking at the screenshots I have no idea what the app does. Screenshot 1: A sheet of paper next to a phone. Is it printer bridge? Screenshot 2/3: Calendar and Reminders. Is it a to-do compiler that pulls from sources that already exist on the device? Screenshot 4: A phone with a date picker. Ok, what about the last day of the month? Screenshot 5: Print your daily plan…
Agree. Looks like ai slop