Radars don't go nowhere. Each one is read and triaged by the product managers.

The question is whether there is merit from Apple's perspective in making these APIs public.

Because often we find out at WWDC a year later why they didn't make it public and it's because of some foundational rearchitecture.

And I'm sure the managers do a very tasteful ceremony where they read the radars out loud before they print and burn them on the sacred pyre at the end of the month.

No they always stay there.

It's just that the world doesn't revolve around one particular issue. If your particular issue doesn't have lots of duplicates (i.e. common) or it isn't strategically important to Apple then it just doesn't get prioritised.

The largest ash pile does get addressed eventually.

> The App Store Developer guidelines state that “going to the press won’t get you anywhere”

Where does it state this?

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

I hate to be "that guy", but I can tell you of at least one instance in our case where going public went nowhere. It was more like, case dismissed with prejudice.

I don't know about radar. Never tried it.

Given my own experiences in the past, I would doubt that radar goes much of anywhere either. Apple just doesn't seem like they move unless and until they want to. But again, I can't say for sure about radar, as I said, I've never gone that route.

By far the best route to go is to be in a position where Apple was about to make the change you wanted anyway. But you probably have to get pretty lucky for that to happen.