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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by Diesel555 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:11AM (#24321298)
I agree with this partially. I have had very good feedback from the reviewers when my app was rejected. I could find and fix their issues, I may not agree with it, but the terms were clear.

Also... I've submitted a minor bug fix and got flagged on something I did not change that was previously approved and their terms did not change. That gets frustrating. I feel like every update is a gamble. Some parts of it seem pretty vague. Sometimes I just resubmit and get a new reviewer and he approves on the iffy ones. But with people in the loop interpretation is always a thing and I can't get too mad over it.

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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by hutattedonmyarm on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:35AM (#24321589)
> Also... I've submitted a minor bug fix and got flagged on something I did not change that was previously approved and their terms did not change

Luckily, this is something they recently said they won’t do anymore

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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by whakim on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:05PM (#24323707)
Since when? This happened to me a week ago.
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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by hutattedonmyarm on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:02PM (#24324111)
June. The App Store review being as inconsistent as it is I’m not exactly surprised that it doesn’t always work
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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by whakim on Sunday August 30, 2020 @09:08PM (#24327525)
Even if it happens less frequently now, the fact that this is still a possibility at all makes submitting anything to the app store a really frustrating experience. Particularly for bugfixes I just really want to fix the bug ASAP, not have to invest a bunch of time changing some unrelated feature (or even wasting another review cycle). Consequently I do try to minimize my total number of submissions.
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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by hutattedonmyarm on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:42AM (#24338912)
Turns out the announcement was in june, and the process change is starting today [0] I agree with you though, the review process, especially because it's super inconsistent and even Apple themselves sem to be care about some rules more than others, is quite a pain

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=84w3e5bm

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Re:Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your ... by whakim on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @02:54PM (#24345450)
I saw this too. Great news if true (thank you, court of public opinion). Still a little bit unclear how Apple will know that my changes are just bugfixes; are they going to read my minified javascript?
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