Apple Has Removed Launcher from the App Store

This is what happenes when you write apps for a walled garden.

It's a risky business. This is a good lesson for investors as well. When you have a sole company deciding your fate, stuff like this will happen.

This isn't the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last.

I feel bad for the guy, but this is the risk we take when writing apps for apple.

The most glaring thing that stands out to me in this situation is how mismanaged the review process is that one person allows the app into the store, no problem, and another yanks it after it's been featured on tech blogs and made a solid number of sales. Their review process is disorganized and determined by the arbitrary whims of random, individual reviewers.

I'm glad I managed to snag Launcher on Friday evening before it was yanked, but by the time I had it set up and decided I wanted the pro version it was gone.

Can't the author sell the app over his own website and process the billig over fastspring?

At least that is what Peter Borg does with Lingon (https://sites.fastspring.com/peterborgapps/product/lingonx).

Pigs! Apple should be enforced to carry a non-closed app store. Apple would bow if the alternative were to loose European market. Don't understand that Europe accepts such huge /closed/ application ecosystems. (Android is open, fine; Microsoft is tiny, not relevant (yet?)).