About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
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Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#2As beautiful and polished as iOS is it is policies like these that keep me on Android.
I wish iSH the best of luck, but I will stick with Termux (https://termux.com/) on Android for now.
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Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#4As beautiful and polished as iOS is it is policies like these that keep me on Android. I wish iSH the best of luck, but I will stick with Termux ( https://termux.com/ ) on Android for now.
I just categorize iOS devices as consoles, analogous to things like Nintendo game systems, and not as true general purpose computers.
I also consider it foolish to attempt to innovate on this platform beyond the narrow confines of what mobile devices typically do, or to put too much engineering work into iOS specific stuff. Apple can and will simply revoke your app for fickle reasons. iOS is a pretty dumb term for cloud apps and the web, and that’s it.
That being said I do have an iPhone... because for my phone that’s all I want and it works well and has better privacy than most Android devices. I basically want web, email, texting, calls, and maps, and maybe occasional apps like Uber or whatever. I don’t use it as a “real computer.” I have a real computer for that.
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#5These are linked in the post, but I'm pulling them out as a top-level comment so you can focus your discussion on those.
Theodore on how the App Review process could be improved: https://tbodt.com/2020/11/08/app-review-experiences.html
Ramblings I wrote on why I believe the guideline iSH was pulled under was incorrectly applied and needs to be rewritten: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/11/08/fixing-section-2-5-2/
Related, a-Shell got a similar notice: https://twitter.com/a_shell_ios/status/1325526061099196416
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#6As beautiful and polished as iOS is it is policies like these that keep me on Android. I wish iSH the best of luck, but I will stick with Termux ( https://termux.com/ ) on Android for now.
I just categorize iOS devices as consoles, analogous to things like Nintendo game systems, and not as true general purpose computers. I also consider it foolish to attempt to innovate on this platform beyond the narrow confines of what mobile devices typically do, or to put too much engineering work into iOS specific stuff. Apple can and will simply revoke your app for fickle reasons. iOS is a pretty dumb term for cl…
I use iOS devices specifically because they are consoles, not general purpose computers.
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#7Hadn’t heard of iSH before now, but I just downloaded. Seems likely that this will become another example of Streisand effect!
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#8As beautiful and polished as iOS is it is policies like these that keep me on Android. I wish iSH the best of luck, but I will stick with Termux ( https://termux.com/ ) on Android for now.
i thought termux is going to have issue in latest version of andriod?
This is what we get from monopoly.
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#9Cant imagine how Apple would let this through in the first place but makes sense they would pull it.
I grabbed a copy after reading this and very nice work by the developers but easy to see how an app that lets me install other apps on ios would be banned.
Re: About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store
#10Previous discussion of app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861923