Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and...
by mdoms on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:13PM
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> It's a question of taste. Great Mac and iPhone are done very tastefully. Truple is missing that.
It is wild to me that there is a megacorporation whose subjective opinion of "tastefulness" (based on their own North American cultural norms) is a gate to software delivery and that there is an entire category of users who actually think this is a good thing.
I googled a bit and found [1] and [2]. Their marketing is very very different from yours [3].
[1] looks very tasteful, considering they are basically spyware. It's a very positive spin with great copywriting.
[2] gives me some Christian vibes, it's not for me, but it still looks decent.
[3] on the other hand just looks really creepy. The copy is awkward and the hectic GIF with the screenshots and the bikini picture just gives me stalker vibes.
It's a question of taste. Great Mac and iPhone are done very tastefully. Truple is missing that.
(That doesn't mean that Apple only approves tasteful apps. There are a lot of poorly designed apps on the app store. But if you are doing something even slightly questionable, and your app looks a bit creepy, then Apple is not going to go out of their way to help you get it out there, even if you aren't breaking any explicit rules.)
[1]: https://accountable2you.com [2]: https://everaccountable.com/ref/61/ [3]: https://truple.io