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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:26PM (#21437844)
> because the developer community

Which is not a homogenous group, both in ideals and for why they'd upvote a submission like this.

> this rejection, and it's backing policy to be nonsensical

They're different things. I personally think the rejection is perfectly sensical in the context of the backing policy, with which I don't fully agree.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by throwGuardian on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:44PM (#21437952)
You must be chugging the koolaid to believe developers LOVE Apple's policies, or enjoy getting their hard-work rejected by a bot, or getting shamed by an overzealous Apple employee on HN. Developers are homogeneously unappreciative of Apple's treatment of them. They just don't have any leverage, or opportunity to negotiate
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:48PM (#21437975)
…you're replying to a comment where I state that I don't fully agree with Apple's policies.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by scarface74 on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:56PM (#21438335)
Who are you going to blame when applications start breaking because Apple removes or changes the functionality of a private function? [1] without warning?

When you are writing any software that has a public API you should feel no obligation to change the functionality or completely remove a private method without warning.

[1] I refuse to call it a private API. An API is public documentation of the inputs and expected behavior of a dependency. It should be a completely black box how that functionality is implemented.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by throwGuardian on Sunday November 03, 2019 @10:14PM (#21438725)
Blame the developer? Which is why, when an app breaks on the Mac store or app store, users pound the app with 1-star reviews. Even if the breakage happened from a platform (iOS or MacOs or Android) bug.

This is not Apple "watching out" for the developers, no matter how much you spin it

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by saagarjha on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:03AM (#21439513)
If enough applications break, users are more than likely to blame the "stupid Apple update" rather than their apps.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by simonh on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:40AM (#21440723)
It's Apple watching out for users.
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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by arvinsim on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:36PM (#21438230)
Doesn't help that developers still buy their machines.

Apple will only listen if it hits their bottom line.

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Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store by simonh on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:42AM (#21440736)
The problem is that flakey software on their platform, that breaks on OS updates and bug fixes annoys users, and thus also hits Apple's bottom line.
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