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I'm facing a bitter conflict with Mac App Review. I feel so poorly about this that I can't sleep, and my mind is in turmoil. After 37 years writing Mac software, I'm wondering if there is anything left of the Mac and of the Apple spirit that made such a difference in my life. I hate to give up my current work (5 years and 13,000 lines of code), but in a sense it would be liberating to be free of Apple.

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I've had very similar feelings with a different ecosystem. The reality is that you don't have to be a Mac developer. You can jump ship, try something else and even come back later if it didn't work out. I tied my identity as a developer to a technology. When the technology got worse, it made me feel worse.

Trying something else felt like a break-up, and I haven't attained the same reputation I had in my the ecosystem that I had spent 15 years pm; but this was 6 years ago and I'm glad I moved on and not looking back. It _will_ be liberating; it's just a soulless corporation at this point.

Reach out if you want to chat. This really resonated with me!

I have been a Mac and iOS developer for 7 years now and am moving away. I feel like Apple treats developers really poorly from App Review process to forced updates of your hardware/OS/Xcode.

cc101 I was in that exact situation a few years ago! I feel you! I'm still writing Mac software, but now spending more and more time learning about different technologies with an eye on getting out one day.

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