kiltedgreen

I had iPods for years and no mobile phone. I only ended up getting a phone when I wanted an iPod touch with more space only to find that I could buy an equal or better performance iPhone with the same storage as an iPod for less money! So that’s how, at the age of about 55 I ended up with a mobile phone …

I have a few apps on the App Store and it’s been blindingly clear for years that Apple breaks its own guidelines by anccepting apps that flaunt them.

One of my apps was for the Mac (I know) designed for writers to encourage them to write, not getting sidetracked into editing and so to get the bare bones down as a start. It allowed you to create a file, but not open one. You could only delete back 5 characters, paste was disallowed, the arrow keys had no effect and you could not save your work until you’d written at least 500 words. Apple initially rejected it because they said that it didn’t offer any particular functionality over existing text based apps. I replied and spelt out all the notable ways it differed from an ordinary text app and they let it through.

Then look at the thousands of hidden object games, the thousands of “Texas hold ‘em” style games, and many more. You don’t have to look far to see a huge number of games that apart from different images are virtually carbon copies of other apps by the same developer or other developers. This has been going on for years so it does not surprise me at all that the apps you mentioned got approved. It’s virtually built-in to the “review” process.

Zirlin said:

Put the MacOS on the iPad and watch sales skyrocket.

You’ve not been here long, have you?

The official Google app in the App Store is at number 85, in Utilities, not the App Store as a whole.

Evidence is hardly needed. The idea that Apple developed Vision Pro, released visionOS 2.0 and then decided to call it a day is bizarre as evidenced by the last line of the article “Of course, it is obvious that Apple has been working on visionOS 3.0” and you don’t need a slip-up in documentation to be 99.9% sure it’s the case!