Greg Gardner
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@gregggreg2
San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2010
I am playing the world's tiniest violin for the people at Apple who were told that they had to build the entire proposal before they could get it approved. The number of times we developers have heard this same thing from App Review is too high to count.
Gee, that's a nice app you got there. It would be a shame if we had to take it down because it's not getting enough downloads. BTW, have you tried App Store Search Ads?
One of my goals in life is to never attend a webinar.
Every time an AI agent asks me if I want to proceed I am obligated to say this out loud
GIF
This is true for 99.9% of the apps on the App Store, but is not true for the apps at the very top. Facebook and WeChat have been caught blatantly violating the guidelines without ever being removed. Two things matter: number of lawyers and user base.
I know a developer whose app Apple features and writes editorial stories about in the App Store. Yet the App Review team is threatening to remove it. App Review is the most closed and most impartial division at Apple. They don’t care how big you are, your revenue,or your user