There has been absolutely zero change in “service” quality from when my first app made $15 a month to my developer account pulling in >$10mil annually.

An email would be nice. Maybe a fruit basket.

> An email would be nice. Maybe a fruit basket.

Ask not what Apple can do for you -- ask what you can do for Apple.

Arguably it gets worse. At $10mil you're on their radar and get a lot more rejections.

> account pulling in >$10mil annually. An email would be nice. Maybe a fruit basket.

They cut you a cheque for 10mil each year, maybe you are the one that should be sending them a fruit basket at christmas.

The hubris.

This is like failing restaurants who can't hire people putting up signs saying 'giving away stimulus checks every 2 weeks apply inside'.

They aren't cutting him a check, they are installing themselves as a middle man between him and his money. Apple did none of the work, but take almost half the money.

Remove the app store, it's all spam and ads anyways and search is damn near impossible.

I'd say they should be paying him since his apps bring in so many customers, and he has to do all the legwork.

If people stop making iOS apps, thr machine stops.

If people stop making iOS apps, apple stop writing them big fat cheques.

There are a shit ton more developers than there are platforms to develop on.