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Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by jacobwilliamroy »

noch wrote: post #33
AsyncAwait wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never…

> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

Selling software to users? Did you time travel from 1999 or something?

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by odshoifsdhfs »

chris_wot wrote: post #40
odshoifsdhfs wrote: post #36

`While the first version of this app was on the App Store from 2014 to 2016, I removed it in that last year because the app stopped working properly with most Boorus, and it was broken for most users. Since then, I started developing a new version called “Mignori 3”, which has never hit the App Store. It has been on TestFlight for a while.` So basically he was calling something a 'beta' and distributing it through Te…

So it was in beta for three years. What of it? That's hardly fraudulent. If something is in beta, then it's... in beta. He wasn't selling it.

He was using Testflight to distribute it on his website. This has been a nono to do for a long time. You may not agree with it, but them are the rules.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by nromiun »

> The big problem is that when Apple tells you that the reasons “are not limited” the ones they listed, it could be anything. They could call my face ugly and remove me from the Developer Program under that reason and tell me it was because of “fraud”.

Seriously, just how hard is it for these companies to communicate properly? Would it kill them to send something like "We saw X on your account so we are closing your account temporarily. Contact us.". Instead it is just "We closed your account. Get screwed.".

This is why so many developers are going the web app way these days. Dealing with a closed platform who won't even talk to you is just infuriating.

Sorry for the rant.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by chris_wot »

odshoifsdhfs wrote: post #43
chris_wot wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it was in beta for three years. What of it? That's hardly fraudulent. If something is in beta, then it's... in beta. He wasn't selling it.

He was using Testflight to distribute it on his website. This has been a nono to do for a long time. You may not agree with it, but them are the rules.

You are speculating though. Do you know for sure that is the fraudulent activity that Apple are referring to?

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by mmkos »

coder1001 wrote: post #12

Startup idea for anyone who is interested: Paid customer service where the customer pays money (say $100-$1k depending on how serious the issue is) and each company can have a special channel to respond to these paid requests and be compensated (say 80% of the fee the customer pays). That way companies will have the will and ability to attend to serious issues and filter them out from the "useless" customer requests…

In the UK and least there exists a service like that - resolver.co.uk. I have used it once and got a response from the company that I complained about. I thought that was rather neat.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by amatecha »

spzb wrote: post #35
p49k wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author states in the article that it did go through review.

Does he? This is the portion I was basing my comment on : "The app has been sitting on TestFlight for 3 years now, it has around 200 beta users, and if anything, the only reason I can think of, is that Apple thinks I decided to unofficially deploy the app with TestFlight without going through the formal review."

I guess there's the implication it had some form of review when he says: "Mignori 3 was published on TestFlight in 2017 and Apple approved it."
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