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Owning an app developing company I can only confirm that the App Store approval process is very developer unfriendly.  

The other day one of my apps was rejected because we asked the user to give his e-mail address.  While the e-mail address was essential for a functionality in the app to deliver better customer service, Apple did not want to understand it was necessary.  It took 35 days before the app eventually got approved  You don't have a direct contact (chat, email) to discuss sometimes futile rejections, you only have  a single text field in the approval form to give comments, which is a ridiculous way of working in 2017.  In this case the Android version of the app was ready and we had started my marketing campaign for the app.  These 35 days have turned out to be very expensive, basically killing the business case for the iOS version of the app.

I had once a new version of an app rejected and the only change was some spelling mistakes in the French translation, demonstrating the lack of consistency and common sense in the process. 

Apple is ignorant about the business impact  for the developer of its approval process, and that is a shame

matrix077 said:

Think it’s for coders. Too many of them at Apple, Google, Facebook etc. what you said about monitor is irrelevant to this group. 

Owning a SW company, I can indeed confirm that coders just need a large monitor, not a super high quality one like designers.  A 1 TB SSD disk is not really needed for coders (256 GB seems to be sufficient).  As such the price of the machine is not compatible with my business.

christopher126 said:

Refusing a 'payment method' is just daft, arrogant and shortsighted to say the least.

Stupid CEO!

>90% of companies where the founder dies and is replaced by professional CEO's eventually go out of business. Apple, Boeing. Ford, McDonalds, etc., are the exceptions and not the rule. 85% of Fortune 500 companies in 1950 are now out of business. Why Americans continue to show such reverence (and high salaries) to CEO's is beyond me!

Best

Refusing a payment method is about as stupid to refuse to buy at a shop because of a payment method

randominternetperson said:

I'm impressed.  I wouldn't have thought it possible to push out of fix to users within (essentially) 24 hours of being notified of the vulnerability.  Perhaps you have to be in IT and have some experience with release management to appreciate how exceptional this type of turnaround is.  More than a people at 1 Infinite Loop and/or Apple Park didn't get any sleep last night.

Actually the issue was raised on the Apple support forum on 13th of November.   So it took Apple more than 2 weeks to react.  Not impressive at all

metrix said:

It certainly appears that the EU and other entities are pursuing Apple's wealth only years and years after its generating all this profit.
Apple will see an attack from all directions because the competition is sensing a huge shift due to the success of the latest iPhone. The adults are going crazy over Animoji, I can see kids just going nuts for this. This may be the Elmo of this Christmas.

But it only appears to be so.  The EU is mainly interested is making an equal playing field inside the EU.  That is the reason why it it suing Ireland for illegal state aid and not Apple for tax avoidance.  The tax avoidance is only a consequence of the illegal state aid.  Take a closer look at all the other cases that Vestager is investigaing, she is always going after the member states which try to attract companies by giving them illegal state aid.  Although in 80% of the cases the illegal state aid results in tax avoidance, this is not always the case.