Japanese Developers Criticize Apple's App Store Policies and Approval Process

[Yammabot]

A few more me Too’s jumping on epic’s coat tails hoping to get their way in someone else’s store. Has anyone thought of getting together and lowering the price of beer at the ballparks? How about the ridiculous price of admission or concessions at theme parks? Is it a monopoly yea sort of but it’s still Apples monopoly.
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A few more me Too’s jumping on epic’s coat tails hoping to get their way in someone else’s store. Has anyone thought of getting together and lowering the price of beer at the ballparks? How about the ridiculous price of admission or concessions at theme parks? Is it a monopoly yea sort of but it’s still Apples monopoly.

 

[MadeTheSwitch]

I told everyone weeks ago that this was only going to gather steam. It’s like a boulder rolling downhill..it’s going to gather more and more moss and get bigger and bigger. No way that something does not change with all this pressure from so many quarters. Even Apple will not be able to stand up to all of that.

 

[aleni]

What now? Japanese developers rage because of their hentai apps got rejected?

 

[Abazigal]

Apple vs the world. Always has been, always will be.

https://imgur.com/a/yZhkQ

 

[patent10021]

That's pretty rich coming from Japanese tech companies. Japanese tech companies have the worst salaries, compensations, benefits and work environments out of anyone in G7.

 

[dingclancy23]

I have yet to run into a limitation. Perhaps its WebGL and WebAssembly aren't yet up to snuff, but just about every web app I have been tasked has worked perfectly fine and been able to be 'installed' on the users home screen.

But not the same "app experience" as a native app. They run fine, but the frameworks are libraries in WebGL and Webkit pales considerably to native frameworks that a web app is not just an option.

The idea has always been to skip the app store, you can run a web app instead. People were thinking way bigger on what Web Apps can do if you have better web technologies on the iPhone. We are talking about full blown desktop apps that you load on the browser. For example on the desktop, game streaming is already available on the browser. No way Apple enables that on mobile Safari. Or how about a proper VNC on the browser? Or a desktop class IDE on Safari? The bits and pieces are there but web apps will always lag behind native apps.

And that is not just because web apps suck. While that is true, Apple is also incentivized to push native apps over web technologies.