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Comment by DrHankPym | Hacker News Reader

I didn't know Apple's App Store sold apps with bugs in them. Don't they have some type of review process?

This is a joke right? Since a bug can be a infinite loop and proving that you have no infinite loops in your program is uncomputable this would be an impossible task.

No. I remember reading a year or so ago about how tedious it was to submit an app to the Apple App Store, and how you also have to submit your source code or something.

I don't have an iPhone. I'm just going off what I've understood from iPhone users and developers over the years.

Apple isn't doing code reviews or regression testing, that's for sure.

The process is in place to make sure that your app is doing what it is supposed to do and is not using any private APIs and stuff like that.

You do not submit your code to Apple. They do run some automated scans on your binary for calls to undocumented API's, and they do run your app and check for certain issues that are important to Apple. It's an approval process, not a testing process.

Again, I haven't touched an iPhone in my life, but this was the reason I've heard apps in Apple's App Store is better than apps in Android's App Store. There could be other reasons, but I thought it had to do with Apple's involvement.

Keep downvoting me; I don't care. I'm asking honest (and I guess dumb) questions.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Times two if its a blog post about a rejected app.

They definitely usually check if the app works as intended or not or at least they do for the Mac App Store.

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