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0 pointslesterbuck13y ago0 comments

My long term interest is in Android, but I switched to an iPhone a year ago to follow that ecosystem, too. The first thing I did was buy three call blocking apps from the App Store, none of which worked at all. After reading all the horror stories about the vaunted App Store approval process to protect innocent iPhone users from bad apps, I realized it was all marketing FUD. When an app has 99% bad reviews, all saying "doesn't work" and it stays in the app store, that is Apple fraud.

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nicholassmith13y ago

Developer community demanded Apple reduced their ban hammer swing, they did. They get a lot of crap that slips through the net because of it, however when complaints are made they seem to respond, the problem being a review isn't a complaint. Well, the problem being Apple isn't draconian enough now really.

lesterbuckOP13y ago

I just want to confirm my understanding of the argument you are making: Because Apple backed off a bit on the huge list of things one cannot do with an app, they now have a pass to approve apps that, by definition, cannot ever work on their platform, and can be demonstrated to not work at all by ... trying to use them?

Maybe I'm missing the point of your comment.

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nicholassmith13y ago

lesterbuckOP13y ago

Maybe I'm missing the point of your comment.

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