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Originally Posted by stustaff
Choice is good! and if everyone was open and let anything into their store then where is my choice to have someone pre approve the apps that appear on my phone?
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How does this preclude, in any way, following sensible good practice guidelines? That means providing (a for-pay, if necessary) pre-screening of apps. That means having clear and unambiguous guidelines for apps, not secret criteria you only find about when you fail them. That means having a period between changing criteria and rejecting apps for them. And so on.
Apple would maintain full control. They'd just have a far better working relationship with developers, and higher quality apps because of that.
So sorry you think this is bad.
And yes, it's up to them if they want to do otherwise - but it's a perfectly valid criticism that they don't, and saying otherwise is blind and bluntly silly. I'm sorry that you want lower quality apps, and to a large extent? You're getting them.
Android,
because of the lack of this kind of gatekeeping is getting generally higher quality apps now. There is a distinctly smaller proportion of the "spammy" apps which plague the iStore are notably missing, or compiled down into single apps (when they're 20 or 100 on the iPhone, literally).
So sorry you hate that.