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

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story".

I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store.

I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its not at all surprising Apple have taken issue with him.

TestFlight is a dev tool. Its not for production deployment. Its meant for beta testing.

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Post by ecmascript » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

blickentwapft wrote: post #3

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What?

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Post by sunaurus » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

I really hate this current reality of having to use social media channels for a chance of proper customer support. Are there any initiatives that are working against this? I would be happy to contribute to any kind of platform or movement or whatever that aims to mitigate/fix this.

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Post by hadrien01 » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

It seems to be very clearly as a temporary beta: https://www.mignori.com/beta/

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Post by gman83 » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:15 AM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

Yeah he's been distributing the app through TestFlight with the link on his website for three years.

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Post by bsaul » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:15 AM UTC

This kind of post infuriates me. As an iOS developer for 10 years, i can guarantee you that there are probably hundreds (if not thousands) of stories like that, with people getting shut down for no good reason, and having their business killed.

It's now so bad people are refraining from trying out innovative business model or apps just because they think there could be a chance someone at apple validation wouldn't like it and kill the product at any time.

I wish the Hey story makes people realize it is not reasonable to have one actor control the only software distribution channel to hundred of millions of customers.

I'm fine with apple wanting to provide a highly curated experience to their users by having them download apps from a store they control. But this shouldn't be the only option.

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Post by taurath » Thu, Jun 18, 2020, 9:16 AM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #4

The problem with all these "Apple is being nasty to me" stories that have been appearing recently is that there appears to be a strong smell of "two sides to every story". I have not read the blog post above fully, but a speed-read suggests that the author was publicly distributing an app through TestFlight rather than App Store. I am not accusing anyone of anything here. But if my speed-read is accurate, then its no…

Having worked at large companies - Apple is not a nice company especially to their app platform users. They will hold your app hostage whenever they want something. They play hardball (read: act like immoral sociopaths) because service revenue is how they justify their 13 figure valuation to their shareholders.