{"id":4627,"date":"2012-04-09T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2012-04-09T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:58:01","slug":"app-store-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/app-store-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kswizz.com\/post\/20535041240\/app-store-retrospective\">Kenneth Ballenegger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kswizz.com\/post\/20535041240\/app-store-retrospective\"><p>But what&rsquo;s even more scary, to me, than a mistake Apple might have made recently (such as its deprecation of UDIDs) is how relevant this old list of complaints remains. Remember, when I wrote this, the App Store was just one year old. I figured, they might just not have had time to get to these items, and that they&rsquo;d improve as time went by. But, since then, they&rsquo;ve had time to replay the entire life of the App Store thrice more, and for the most part, nothing has changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like the review process has gotten faster. But most of the policy changes seem to be in the direction of adding more restrictions rather than addressing developers&rsquo; concerns. To me, the interesting question is to what extent Apple actively likes the App Store the way it is, that it&rsquo;s working as designed. And to what extent the problems stem from the music store origins, and Apple simply hasn&rsquo;t thought about it that much since the overall sales numbers and press have been good.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Ballenegger: But what&rsquo;s even more scary, to me, than a mistake Apple might have made recently (such as its deprecation of UDIDs) is how relevant this old list of complaints remains. Remember, when I wrote this, the App Store was just one year old. I figured, they might just not have had time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}