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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

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830 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 18 Nov 20 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.597s | source
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gtsteve ◴[18 Nov 20 11:19 UTC] No.25135526[source]▶
Looks nice but it doesn't solve my fundamental problem:

1. I invest loads of time and effort developing an app

2. Apple rejects it

-or-

2. Apple approves it

3. I ship a new update

4. Apple rejects the update and now decides my app should have been rejected retroactively.

I'm especially concerned about what happened to Hey and others but my customers are demanding smartphone apps and there are still limits to what can be done with a mobile web browser.

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1. varispeed ◴[18 Nov 20 11:32 UTC] No.25135628[source]▶
There is another problem - you cannot create your own app store or use alternative one if Apple for some reason does not accept your app. There is essentially no competition and at least the EU should step in and force Apple to open it to other app stores.
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2. beagle3 ◴[18 Nov 20 15:10 UTC] No.25137571[source]▶
There’s altstore.io and others, and e.g. f-droid for Android.

What you want is for those stores to be on equal footing - which I would like as well, but is harder to argue for because alternatives do exist.