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Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

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Re: Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

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Post by cp9 »

re: the 19 days issue

you're planning around the time where most of the people who review these things are going to be taking PTO. as far as I could tell reading the guidelines the only guarantee apple gives you is that they'll get to it as soon as possible

it's also a little funny that DHH is saying that apple exempted them from the rules last time and then a couple paragraphs later is complaining that apple exempts other companies from the rules as well

Re: Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

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Post by mertbio »

DHH really needs to control his temper. Instead of focusing on the discrimination of his app (while there are other apps similar to HEY Calendar, why theirs rejected), he keeps mentioning about Apple’s 30% commission but this commission only applies to small number of developers. If you don’t earn more than $1 million in a year, you only pay 15%. If you earn more than that but have subscriptions (like HEY) then you pay 15% after the first year of the subscription.

I think he should just focus on the discrimination part instead of mentioning about the tax or Apple being a monopoly. I don’t how mentioning those things is going to help him to solve the issue. (Since it is already decided by a judge that Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on the App Store)

Re: Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

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Post by hightrix »

cp9 wrote: post #6

re: the 19 days issue you're planning around the time where most of the people who review these things are going to be taking PTO. as far as I could tell reading the guidelines the only guarantee apple gives you is that they'll get to it as soon as possible it's also a little funny that DHH is saying that apple exempted them from the rules last time and then a couple paragraphs later is complaining that apple exempts…

Anyone who has ever deployed an app to the iOS App Store knows, very well, that Apple slows reviews during the US Holiday season. Additionally, anyone who has done this also knows that Apple review times are extremely variable from 1 day to 1 month.

I agree, the duration of the review is irrelevant to this complaint. I would suggest hiring SWEs/consultants who actually understand the iOS App Review process the next time you want to release an app, since Hey obviously does not understand it.

Re: Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store

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Post by rgovostes »

hightrix wrote: post #8
cp9 wrote: post #6

re: the 19 days issue you're planning around the time where most of the people who review these things are going to be taking PTO. as far as I could tell reading the guidelines the only guarantee apple gives you is that they'll get to it as soon as possible it's also a little funny that DHH is saying that apple exempted them from the rules last time and then a couple paragraphs later is complaining that apple exempts…

Anyone who has ever deployed an app to the iOS App Store knows, very well, that Apple slows reviews during the US Holiday season. Additionally, anyone who has done this also knows that Apple review times are extremely variable from 1 day to 1 month. I agree, the duration of the review is irrelevant to this complaint. I would suggest hiring SWEs/consultants who actually understand the iOS App Review process the next t…

Apple preemptively warns developers about longer processing times during the holidays every year. (Until recently, they did no reviews at all during the week of Christmas.) E.g., https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=xpkhwg3l
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