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Apple Delaying Telegram From Releasing Major App Store Update, Telegram CEO Says [Updated]
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Fixed that for you. Well, except the „providing the return someone’s looking for“. Cause apps often priced competitively, not to the return a developer’s looking for.
Jesting aside, let’s not pretend you’re speaking for all and every user, are you?
When you punch people in the mouth with your fist, don’t be surprised if they run to their big brother - or the government - to rein you in.
I guess you would also like to see WhatsApp, Signal, TikTok, Instagram, etc. removed too.
Yep, Apple plays all kinds of anti-competitive games with App Store reviews and if Apple was to be transparent they would have a lot more trouble getting away with the games they play.
Maybe there’s a new feature in this latest Telegram update that is similar or identical to a feature Apple plans for iMessage in iOS 17?
Good for you, in all seriousness. But I suspect your app doesn't compete with one of Apple's, and hence doesn't get the scrutiny that Telegram (or Signal, or WhatsApp) does.
Apple does seem to see the App Store as a way to keep its apps' competitors on a bit of a leash.
Do you think these developers would exist without the App Store? I know the answer and it is no. The only people who want to operate outside of the IOS app stores are ungrateful, greedy developers, criminals looking to exploit your iPhone/iPad, and some nut jobs who think everything should be free. These groups represent .0000000000000000000000001% of the users. Everyone else liked the App Store.
You‘d need some serious education in critical thinking and math skills first.
Apple offers XCode for free, Apple offers simulator testing for free. Apple offers SDK access for free. They only want $ 99 /year for App Review and beta testing. And of course for publishing profiles for publishing to real devices. (Yes, as a developer, you can already sideload any App to your phone
)If Apple would price XCode based on the cut they get from the App Store, XCode would be $ 20,000 or more per license.
Indeed. Without the App Store most apps wouldn't be able to be easily found. I actually like how Windows handles this, the Microsoft store really revolutionized how you get and install software, including automatic updates. I honestly will never sideload apps to my iPhone (except for the ones I develop myself), or install a third party app store on it.
I mean they exist just fine on the Mac without an App Store, selling their apps themselves or through a better vendor like Steam.
Or you know app developers who have certain apps that Apple does not allow on the App Store like retro game emulators, virtual desktops, developers who have a refund policy since the App Store lacks one, developers who want to get updates out faster but can't because they have to wait through App Review, or maybe for some reason Apple just won't allow your app at all for internal reasons, like what happened with FlickType. Linus Media Group's app Floatplane struggled to get on the App Store having to go through numerous App Reviews that got rejected for vague reasons.
Oh yes everyone else does...which is why the Mac App Store is pretty much forgotten right?
He speaks as if everyone hasn’t been inconvenienced and financially attacked at some point in their lives…ever heard of the DMV and court system?
There’s always two sides to a story, so let’s see what Apple has to say. I doubt they’re holding it for no reason, and if they are, I agree that Apple should disclose that they’re behind as a professional courtesy.
Companies need to stop with over-hyping and under delivering. Let the feature become revolutionary from real world use. There’s no need to hype it up if it’s really that great.
There’s always two sides to a story, so let’s see what Apple has to say. I doubt they’re holding it for no reason, and if they are, I agree that Apple should disclose that they’re behind as a professional courtesy.
Companies need to stop with over-hyping and under delivering. Let the feature become revolutionary from real world use. There’s no need to hype it up if it’s really that great.
As a regular submitter of apps to the review process I can say that whilst often an app does get cleared for review in a couple of days, and for updates sometimes within a day, it can take longer. And when it does, it’s usually because of a cock up by the developer. They’re claiming that its been stuck without any reason. I doubt that very much. I’ve simply never seen it. But I guess YMMV.
Shame on apple for what? telegram is still available on the app store an update is under review. Telegram says apple is holding it hostage but apple has not commented. From the experiences listed here it seems apple is really good at communicating with dev's on why their app needs changes or is being held up.
I never understand when people bring up the "Apple tax". YOU signed a contract agreeing to give Apple 30% of your earnings if they let you use their platforms. YOU did that. It's not like some Apple collector comes banging on your door at midnight demanding an "Apple tax" that you had no idea about when you signed up to be a developer. You knew exactly what you were signing up for, and if it's so abusive and draconian like you're saying, then why did you agree to it?
And if the CEO of a top 10 app in the world somehow didn't know about that part of the contract for the last few years and you're just now finding out about it, then it's as simple as canceling your developer account and you will no longer have to pay them 30% of your App Store earnings.
And if the CEO of a top 10 app in the world somehow didn't know about that part of the contract for the last few years and you're just now finding out about it, then it's as simple as canceling your developer account and you will no longer have to pay them 30% of your App Store earnings.
Mac App store is dead because any one can download anything from any where.
If Apple opens up iOS app store it would exactly like Mac App store.
Why would any one want to go go through iOS app store guidelines on privacy.
A month later?! You do realize that means that the functionality was already well into development and testing then, right? Apple doesn’t see an interesting app, reject it, then roll its feature set into the operating system in a month’s time. I’d imagine that a month is the minimum for QA approval on a system wide feature for any of Apple’s OSes, let alone development time before that. Plus, how did FlickType even work? The Apple Watch has no copy-paste, so you couldn’t just copy text from FlickType to other apps. It has no inter-application communication method that could exchange arbitrary text, to the best of my knowledge. If FlickType worked by injecting code into every text field to enable itself, then it was definitely using private APIs to do so, which is a well known way to get your app rejected. Some quick research indicates that it didn’t do any of the above, it just worked in its own app, which means it wasn’t even all that useful. (It looks like maybe it could send messages through the system Messages app, and that’s about it for external destinations.)
Happening: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/05/eu-approves-landmark-legislation-to-regulate-apple/
Apple's pre-review will eventually not be needed anymore.
That'll make your point kinda moot if Apple takes twice as long to review then, won't it?
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I’m sure there’s some automation going on in the approval process, which probably works for most apps, but is also why we get the “app gets approved but very quickly revoked” scenario on occasion. The app passes the automated testing (scanning for common bugs, security flaws, usage of private APIs, requesting correct entitlements), gets pushed to the store, then later fails human review. Having human review occur after the app goes live isn’t necessarily a bad idea, it can catch malicious apps that pretend to be something not malicious during the review process but then quickly flip the switch to unveil their malicious payload. Now, a malicious app playing the long game could keep its payload secret for longer and possibly only flip after human review is almost certainly over, but having it at a separate time from automated review can be an extra layer against malicious applications that hide during the initial review then trigger.
I can’t wait to see this awesome new feature that I’ll never use like voice chat with 1000 people or a built in RTMP ingest server or moving backgrounds or shared themes.
They could fix their horrid crawler for link previews or make it so the app is less of a battery hog but that way users communicate with each other ain’t gonna revolutionize itself I guess
They could fix their horrid crawler for link previews or make it so the app is less of a battery hog but that way users communicate with each other ain’t gonna revolutionize itself I guess