Unable to Join Apple Developer Program
The app is real, finished, tested, documented, and ready for submission.
All I needed was to join the Apple Developer Program.
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When you want to publish an app on the App Store, the process is supposed to be simple: you sign in with your Apple ID, fill in your details, pay €99, and you’re in.
Except step 2 silently rejects me.
He contacted Apple Support:
And I was told, literally, that I cannot join, they will not tell me why, and there is nothing I can do.
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After exhausting all normal support routes, I filed a formal GDPR request asking Apple for access to the data used in the automated decision that blocks my enrollment.
But he still didn’t get anything useful. Without sideloading, that means there’s no way to distribute the app.
Previously:
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There must be a way to raise GDPR complaint that does not require a lawyer, probably through the country he lives in.
This sounds like a job for Paul Harvey (aka “There’s more to this story that we don’t know yet”).
I don’t like the reply even if he’s a member of SPECTRE, but there’s gotta be something he knows and hasn’t told us.
I can hardly bemoan other developers for trying to get their app in Apple's store, because for a lot of people there's no other game in town. But I don't want to work with any platform where my ability to distribute an app, much less make any money on it, can be taken away at any moment for no reason with basically no recourse.
"there’s gotta be something he knows and hasn’t told us."
No, there doesn't. Maybe there is something, but mistakes happen, and sometimes people are just victims.
