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Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by chris_wot »

squigz wrote: post #92
analog8374 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

Everything I've ever added was kept.

Good for you I guess.

Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough.

Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#102

Post by squigz »

chris_wot wrote: post #101
squigz wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I've ever added was kept.

Good for you I guess. Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough. Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

This comment is a little light on the reasoning for why you were permabanned.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#103

Post by jchw »

squigz wrote: post #92
analog8374 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

Everything I've ever added was kept.

Not absolutely everything I've ever contributed was kept, but definitely a lot of it. I genuinely get the feeling that the modern Wikipedia hatred comes from somewhere other than a few unfortunate edit wars, but I'm not in-tune enough to know.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#104

Post by HoldOnAMinute »

analog8374 wrote: post #82
squigz wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

Same. Even a single sentence with an easily verifiable fact. Reverted in seconds.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#105

Post by chris_wot »

squigz wrote: post #102
chris_wot wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good for you I guess. Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough. Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

This comment is a little light on the reasoning for why you were permabanned.

I commented on BrownHairedGirl’s RFA. The most toxic user ever on Wikipedia.

I can assure you, there are those on Wikipedia who committed far worse offenses and they remain.

Like I say - a cesspool that doesn’t respect article writers.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#106

Post by BrtByte »

robgough wrote: post #38

I recently built a similar app, and so hit the same limitations – I wasn't too upset on Mac, happy to distribute without the App Store (though it's a shame). Where I was more frustrated was how much this limited the potential usability of the iPhone app. Because of app store restrictions it is a far worse app ... though like in your example, still useful to a degree. I can only hope they use the new CEO as an opportu…

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Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#107

Post by jchw »

squigz wrote: post #76
jchw wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!

It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

Okay, I stand corrected, but I also stand by that it is interesting that it is pointed out that "The project was inspired by SequoiaView" in the lead section, but not that it was a direct port of KDirStat. It feels odd but also intentional, so I never bothered to change it. I'll leave it up to if anyone else feels similarly enough to do so, because then at least that means there are two of us.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#109

Post by burnte »

jchw wrote: post #67
spiral90210 wrote: post #14

SpaceGremlin (mac alternative to WinDirStat) has a similar thing, where some features only work in the independent "SpaceGremlinPro" version downloaded from their site. However, they do some cool stuff with licensing - you can point it to the app store paid/installed version, and it detects the license and unlocks. If you're worried about people not trusting payment to you, might be worth seeing if you could implemen…

There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!

SpaceSniffer is an even better version of WinDirStat but I rarely see people talk about it, too.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

#110

Post by jiehong »

robgough wrote: post #38

I recently built a similar app, and so hit the same limitations – I wasn't too upset on Mac, happy to distribute without the App Store (though it's a shame). Where I was more frustrated was how much this limited the potential usability of the iPhone app. Because of app store restrictions it is a far worse app ... though like in your example, still useful to a degree. I can only hope they use the new CEO as an opportu…

Exactly. On iOS, it completely limits the market for a good dictation app with your keyboard, because iOS just doesn't allow you to.
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