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Apple App Store review is a nightmare? Try Meta (Facebook/Instagram) app review
Apple's App Store review process is pretty notorious for being a nightmare to get through in some situations. There are plenty of horror stories of apps getting rejected for nonsensical reasons or even being rejected during an unrelated update for something that was previously approved. To be fair to Apple, this also happens (perhaps to a lesser extent) with Google's equivalent Play Store review process. One thing that I love about the web is that it is (for the most part) a truly open platform. For better or worse, developers can publish almost anything they want to the web within minutes. The walled garden in app stores can be an endless source of frustration in comparison. I've experienced this frustration firsthand at a few different companies where I was employed as an engineer in the past. I didn't think that anything could be worse than Apple's App Store review... ...and then I tried publishing a Facebook app.
Apple's App Store review process is pretty notorious for being a nightmare to get through in some situations. There are plenty of horror stories of apps getting rejected for nonsensical reasons or even being rejected during an unrelated update for something that was previously approved. To be fair to Apple, this also happens (perhaps to a lesser extent) with Google's equivalent Play Store review process.
One thing that I love about the web is that it is (for the most part) a truly open platform. For better or worse, developers can publish almost anything they want to the web within minutes. The walled garden in app stores can be an endless source of frustration in comparison. I've experienced this frustration firsthand at a few different companies where I was employed as an engineer in the past. I didn't think that anything could be worse than Apple's App Store review...
...and then I tried publishing a Facebook app.
