> The App Store is not a functioning system.
Sad to say this, but this has been known since forever.
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
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#192It's a fine app, but I'm not sure why gruber is glazing it so hard... is he not able to spot something so clearly built by AI? it's one of the better ones but it's got all the hallmarks. I'd be surprised if it's maintained a year from now.
Is Gruber actually against AI-built apps?
He was against the unofficial Mac port of Notepad++ but that had many problems other than being AI-assisted.
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#193This is funny because they aren't approving anything right now Developers are wondering if they are the only ones on their forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/app-store-distribu...
Huh. Do they share review staff with Apple Pay certification? We've been waiting for 6 weeks, with complete silence from Apple.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
But then you're lying. Why not add the comment "no tarot function" without reference to whether it existed in the past? A bit confusing because it's a trivial and seemingly unrelated statement but at least then you wouldn't be lying.
Why not just lie? The white lie is the most expedient thing to get the results you want, which is getting the app into the app store. It's not a slippery slope into a total moral decay of you as a human being. If a friend is hiding from an abusive partner, and that partner asks where your friend is, telling the truth would put your friend in danger, so lying is an important skill to have. The lie in this case gets pa…
Lying is a subversion of morality and strawmanning doesn't change that.
If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.
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#195The words astro-nomy and astro-logy are similar, but this is no "fluke". There's a Wikipedia article with some history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy I imagine astronomers have been sighing resignedly at dinner parties for a couple of millenia: In the Hellenistic world, the Greek words 'astrologia' and 'astronomia' were often used interchangeably, but they were conceptually not the same. In hi…
Yes, when I introduce my interests to new people these days I say "night-sky watching", instead of astronomy, just to avoid this problem.
"Astronomy? You don't really believe in all that nonsense do you? Jane, this guy believes those horoscopes in the paper!"
Sigh
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#196> But that’s not what happened at all. Godier proceeded through a series of escalations up to the App Review Board and the Review Board responded that they determined the original rejection was valid because, I shit you not, “We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature.” > It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology. I hav…
But then you're lying. Why not add the comment "no tarot function" without reference to whether it existed in the past? A bit confusing because it's a trivial and seemingly unrelated statement but at least then you wouldn't be lying.
You are dealing with unreasonable party here. Like the game theory, you have to think what is the next best move. I bet you have not deal with appstore review before, I remember last time even mention google or android in privacy policy will get your app rejected
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not just lie? The white lie is the most expedient thing to get the results you want, which is getting the app into the app store. It's not a slippery slope into a total moral decay of you as a human being. If a friend is hiding from an abusive partner, and that partner asks where your friend is, telling the truth would put your friend in danger, so lying is an important skill to have. The lie in this case gets pa…
Lying is a subversion of morality and strawmanning doesn't change that. If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.
Thank you Kant, but the world is never as black-and-white
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> has critical thinking skills That's not what the court testimony said. Could think does not imply could think critically, especially not when preceded by "could breathe", which is an absurdly low bar. Might as well say, "not literally dead".
You just chopped off the other part of the sentence to change the meaning. > “Qualifications were that they could breathe, they could think,” he said. “They could think” implies critical thinking skills. Then the next sentence says they usually work at the Genius Bar, which is not at all an entry level role.
> “They could think” implies critical thinking skills.
No, it does not. What do you think "they could breathe" implies? That they were athletes?
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? App stores should not exist in a world where only two phone operating systems exist. All apps MUST be installable via web. Come on, EU. Help us out here. Free us from distribution tyranny. Do it before Google morphs into the same hell beast. Soon you won't be able to read unapproved, unattested bytes. It's coming. We need as many freedoms as we can get. Apple can…
> Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? "I do not see the conflict between the view that the App Store review system is failing and the view that it's not the government's business to intervene. Allowing failing systems to fail is how market forces work." https://mastodon.social/@gruber/117055639204173161
Oof. Gets screwed by a monopoly, defends monopolies: idealism is a chain. It frustrates me how some people are buried in this ideology, given 90% of it would be denied with Economics 101.
Yes, free markets are good to a lot of things. No, they don't adjust for complex matters if consumers don't understand then. No, they don't work when monopolies are involved. No, the government setting some boundaries is not the same as socialism.
Example: company adds a cheap ingredient to food that makes it tastier. Studies show a high chance of cancer. This doesn't affect the company margins, so it keeps adding and selling. Consumers are unaware, they keep buying. A good willing competitor has a dillema: poison its customers or lose clients to competition. Guess who can help? The state: it can forbid that ingredient! Now this levels the field for all companies and customers are healthy.