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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by Const-me on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:46AM (#24196184)
Even if you develop for bare metal, you’re at the mercy of hardware manufacturers, who sometimes change specs without warnings.

Windows and Linux are third-party platforms too. I mostly develop for these two platforms (been doing for couple decades now), and never had the unfortunate experience of GP.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by mcv on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:25AM (#24197779)
None of those are quite as arbitrary as the App Store, though.

It's one thing if an app stops working on newer versions of the system due to fundamental change to that system. It's totally different if you get banned simply because the gatekeeper doesn't like your face.

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Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf] by thw0rted on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:11AM (#24283155)
OK, so that's a good argument for not tying your product to the "bare-metal" / Win32 / (specific distro?) APIs, and using something higher level and portable. Which, frankly, everybody should be doing anyway, if you're not in the business of writing kernel drivers.
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