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Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by makeitdouble »

bb88 wrote: post #24
sandworm101 wrote: post #13

I guess the free market has spoken and what is wants is no more free markets. Apple is shooting itself in the foot with this. More choice in products is always better than less.

I disagree. What's worse than trying to pick between 10 different apps that do the exact same thing? Trying to pick between 11 different apps.

The fun begins when 9 of these apps are left to rot and the remaining one moves to a subscription model.

There’s a ton of single use, very simple apps that only have super crappy alternatives left because Apple didn’t want to bother improving the Store app ratings and search functionalities. All the more after Apple in its infinite wisdom started banning apps that were “too simple” (like one single screen).

There’s a few of these apps that kept working through a few OS version updates but finally couldn’t run anymore, and it looks like my only choice is to remake them myself.

If instead of 10 we had 90 of these, there would be a fighting chance that more were still maintained or got open sourced.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by dawnerd »

rgoulter wrote: post #9

The developer has some screenshots on Twitter https://twitter.com/nightcatprod/status/1439773812753637378 Seems like it's got humorous horoscopes. Given that the screenshots are all of just text on a screen, and the development took about a year, I wonder if the rejection is more about the app being 'low quality' rather than about it being just another horoscope app. Regardless, it seems weird to reject an app becaus…

Years ago I made a similar app for that’s what she said jokes and was rejected due to minimal functionality. This was the same time they were allowing those scam 1000 apps that just showed a diamond. Apple makes no sense.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by colejohnson66 »

herpderperator wrote: post #23

> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.

Before Apple added the flashlight feature into their OS, flashlight apps were flooding the store. IIRC, this is the exact text they added at that time

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by ericcumbee »

wirthjason wrote: post #3

> We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience. It makes sense. If there’s a crowded market but you’re good and unique they will let you in. Feels fair to me. I looked around for the site thinking there might a web version. Can’t find anything. All the top hits just return articles about the App Store rejection. I feel Apple made the right choice.

Remember when Steve Jobs said the way to build apps for the iphone would be mobile web apps and we hated that idea? good times.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by pentae »

rvz wrote: post #4

> We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience. Apple has a point. Otherwise I would not be seeing tons of Calendar apps on the App Store. This looks like typical quality over quantity control here. Nothing to see here.

We should also tell Google to limit the search results to just 5. That would prevent you from having to see tons of search results on google.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by analog31 »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #33
herpderperator wrote: post #23

> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.

Before Apple added the flashlight feature into their OS, flashlight apps were flooding the store. IIRC, this is the exact text they added at that time

On Android, it's guitar tuners.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by frumper »

rvz wrote: post #4

> We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience. Apple has a point. Otherwise I would not be seeing tons of Calendar apps on the App Store. This looks like typical quality over quantity control here. Nothing to see here.

Consistency is a major problem with enforcement of this. Let user metrics pick winners in the search.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by DantesKite »

rgoulter wrote: post #9

The developer has some screenshots on Twitter https://twitter.com/nightcatprod/status/1439773812753637378 Seems like it's got humorous horoscopes. Given that the screenshots are all of just text on a screen, and the development took about a year, I wonder if the rejection is more about the app being 'low quality' rather than about it being just another horoscope app. Regardless, it seems weird to reject an app becaus…

Getting into the App Store requires a bit of politics and negotiation.

Nearly everybody I know gets rejected the first time, unless you have a clearly high quality app.

I got mine accepted by submitting screenshots of people saying they were excited about it.

Re: Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough

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Post by i_like_apis »

bb88 wrote: post #24
sandworm101 wrote: post #13

I guess the free market has spoken and what is wants is no more free markets. Apple is shooting itself in the foot with this. More choice in products is always better than less.

I disagree. What's worse than trying to pick between 10 different apps that do the exact same thing? Trying to pick between 11 different apps.

Even worse, searching for a certain high quality app and not being able to find it among a heap of low quality imitators.
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