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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

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830 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 18 Nov 20 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | 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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cwhiz ◴[18 Nov 20 12:22 UTC] No.25135968[source]▶
This isn’t a problem exclusive to Apple anymore. Google has implemented some draconian nonsense this year to the point where I ended up distributing my Android app as a PWA. I had no problems with Apple.

Apple gets all the headlines, and certainly gets more chatter on HN, but they aren’t alone in this bullshit. As an example... Fortnite was also banned by Google.

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Deukhoofd ◴[18 Nov 20 12:29 UTC] No.25136024[source]▶
For Android there are at the very least alternatives for app distribution.
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1. cwhiz ◴[18 Nov 20 12:33 UTC] No.25136054[source]▶
Alternatives technically exist, but they suck. We tried some alternatives but PWA was by far the only one that got any traction.