Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store

Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by ajross on Sunday November 03, 2019 @06:56PM (#21437665)

Wouldn't a more reasonable path be for Apple to talk directly to Electron and Chromium about the issue and work out a path forward before rattling a banhammer at app developers, though?

I mean, did Electron or Google just refuse to fix this? Are these private APIs things that actually get exercised in the apps being threatened?

It's not so much about culpability or Apple's right to control their app deployment environment, it's that the response seems really disproportionate to the offense and pretty badly misdirected.

A more conspiratorially minded poster might wonder if the real goal here was to dissuade developers from using cross-platform frameworks...

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by jbverschoor on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:05PM (#21437713)

Why? It’s very clear what’s wrong. Don’t use private APIs.

Thank you Apple for keeping things clean!!

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by imtringued on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:26AM (#21460932)

Chrome and Firefox are using a critical feature that has no equivalent public API. If they didn't then they would end up using 3x as much energy which is important for the battery life of laptops and phones.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by bdcravens on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:48PM (#21437976)

No. Apple is responsible for their platform, not the ecosystem.

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