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This is such a standard apple developer experience. I've been rejected so many times without making changes related to the rejection reason. I've re-submitted the same app 3 or 4 times and eventually it just gets "approved" all of a sudden. Their review process is complete BS. It's all just luck of which off-shore vendor you got reviewing your app.

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I also had random rejections, and a couple years ago, the review process took some days to a week, making oneself pretty anxious while waiting it out.

These days I doubt I would create anything for iOS anymore, since the risk of getting banned over some nonsense without any recourse whatsoever is just too big and I just dont want to deal with losing my precious time and money. There are better alternatives, like the web, etc.

Unfortunately macOS will be going down that path soon, once they remove the ability to install from any source (and they will do it, no doubt).

It’s a real shame.

>Unfortunately macOS will be going down that path soon, once they remove the ability to install from any source (and they will do it, no doubt)

People have been saying that for ten years now and it hasn't happened yet.

They're just slowly boiling the frog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

I suspect we will be having the same discussion in ten years and nothing significant will have changed.

It really is. A past company made an application that was in the app store for a couple years. Three different customers paid us to white-label the app for them, so we ended up with three additional versions that were new app packages and differed from the original only in fonts, colors, and logos. Two were approved after a short back and forth with different questions for each, and we eventually gave up on the third after 9 months of fruitless back and forth.

Worked for a company with a similar approach (circa 2010) and we got rejected and had to just use the one. Can’t say I feel Apple is wrong for fighting app spam, however.

But Apple created the problem. No company that offers white label applications wants to have to upload a completely separate app for every client, but there is no other option.

And has any of this caused you to re-evaluate building software for Apple devices or purchasing Apple devices for either home or work? If so, what was the outcome of this re-evaluation?

It has for me. I've mentioned it before, but I had an app to help with D&D stuff rejected for describing how to harm someone in one of the descriptions of a spell somewhere.

Some variation of this happened three times. Eventually the level of stupid was too much for me to handle, and on the third time, I just pulled the app rather than resubmit things.

It has for me. I had been working on a Mac app but decided it wasn't worth the hassle.

I prefer the platform but there is no way I'm going to sign up for an abusive relationship with Apple.

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