As a last resort (e.g. if all you have is an Arduino), they advise you to contact Apple support.

I'm pretty sure it would be unlawful to have no way to cancel other than with an Apple device.

Then you go through the same thing each time you push an update, even for a minor bugfix like amending some foreign language strings, get a different reviewer who hasn't read the case notes (I'm guessing these must exist) and decides to do a deep-dive, or maybe a quick rubberstamp in a matter of hours. It seems like a total lottery from my experience. Maybe they just suddenly added a new clause that requires something being done differently and you aren't up on the latest app store guidelines... It really is so frustrating from a developers mental health perspective.

This is why Mozilla's recent layoff is extra painful.

Right because no one ever complained about browser inconsistencies, the inherent limitations of a browser runtime, etc.

No browser quirk is anywhere near as annoying as having a bug fix update to your app rejected for some new random capricious reason.

If any of it was all sunshine and lollipops they wouldn't have to pay us to do it because people would be queuing up to do it for free.

The App Store may have undesirable qualities for some parties but to claim that it is a "broken ecosystem" just tells me that you're looking to exchange ridiculous hyperbole.

Of course, you could always have a personal Android device and an iPhone solely for development purposes. Apple tries to force you to own a Mac and at least one iOS device (be it iPhone or iPad) to develop apps for the App Store. This is yet another example of their corporate greed. You can develop Android apps on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and there's no need for a physical device.

This applies to all platforms. I wouldn't want to do business with a developer that doesn't own the device they're developing for, we learned that lesson with Blackberry thank you.

https://9to5google.com/2013/03/21/google-chairman-eric-schmi...

Steve Jobs didn't let his kids around an iPad because it was dangerous for them

In an interview he said: “Actually we don’t allow the iPad in the home. We think it’s too dangerous for them in effect.”

I think we can trust Steve Jobs when he talks about his (baby) products

$94 million income. RIM was definitely in decline by then. Both the iOS and Android market were very much mature 7 years after the iPhone was introduced.

I never said that they made more money but that the platform was generally better for executives

In 2012 I had a blackberry because clients that had strict security rules (one of them was in the diamonds business) allowed blackberrys but not other smartphones in their offices