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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by midev on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:17PM (#28780586)
If you think requiring the ability to delete your account is "developer hostile", you're exactly why this provision needs to exist. Apple is giving you six months to stop fucking your users. Sorry not sorry :\

> You have to be crazy to stake your company on apple's goodwill at this point

My company has an app on the app store. We do a few hundred million dollars in sales via the app. Are we crazy?

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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by floatingatoll on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:29PM (#28780700)
If you could make an extra hundred million dollars by fucking over users, some would say you are crazy not to, yes. Opinions vary, but that's sort of the essence of it.
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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by oauea on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:27AM (#28784471)
Nah, I think being forced to implement it within 3 months is hostile. I think Apple refusing to send announcements through the mail is hostile.

Apps are just a single frontend to a larger system, and Apple thinks they can dictate the workings of that entire system just because you want to let users access your system from an Apple device. It's bonkers.

Imagine microsoft going: "Microsoft edge will refuse to render your website unless there is a "delete account button". How would that make you feel?

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