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When I choose "DIY" I am not making the choice for "security", "privacy", speed, resource conservation (e.g., program size, memory usage, etc.), convenience, "features" or cost.^1 I am interested in control. Specifically, control over the operation of the computer hardware I purchased
I am willing to make sacrifices to get as much control as I can
But every user is different; some might not care about control. Clearly "Big Tech" cares; perhaps there are advantages to having control
1. Although it's possible the choice may affect these concerns, either positively or negatively. Arguably these concerns are ultimately addressed with finality by whomever has control, whether that's the computer owner or some trillion dollar company
If you call them, they will reset your status so you can try again but they will not tell you the reason. Try doing it on an Apple device that hasn't been used before with a dev account and make sure you are using a credit card on your name.
It's probably Apple trying to fight malicious developers but ending up blocking you.
Apple’s terms explicitly prohibit using automated tools to scrape or analyze App Store data, even if it’s done outside an app. When they flag something like that, they usually don’t explain the reason — partly because they don’t want to expose how they evaluate developer activity or link accounts to external projects.
Not saying it’s definitely the cause, but it’s one plausible explanation the author was denied.
Well, this is unacceptable considering the market power Apple has. It's basically an occupational ban for mobile app development. Imagine, if GitHub won't let you join (maybe) because you criticized Microsoft on Twitter 10 years ago, or (maybe) it's because they don't like the way you dress.
"What's your greatest weakness?"
"Well, I can't develop your app for half the market, because Apple unexpectedly challenged me with a self-improvement journey. But I am well on my way, really introspecting to find out where I failed in life, where I may have misspoken. I am confident I can soon regain Apple's trust and approval for my life decision, and become a full-market developer!"
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What evidence do you have for these claims?
Unless you work for Apple—indeed, unless you work specifically for Apple legal—it's unclear how in the world you would know how common this is or what Apple employees do.
Also Igor, if you are reading this, your GitHub and LinkedIn icons in your sites header link to GitHub and LinkedIn's homepages rather than your profiles. Probably want to fix that ;)
Get a business phone number, mailing address, and credit card.
You're going to have to publish your name, address, phone number, etc when you have an app published on the app store
If you want to get around the individual privacy issue of this, you'll need a business anyway.
Just in case you are on some greater shit-list (maybe by accident, by someone else's doing), I would take a moment to make sure you know how to behave when searched, got nothing too incriminating at home/your car (i.e. illegal drugs), your drives/backups are encrypted and your master password isn't pinned on a post-it. If your existence is bound to local data, make sure to have remote backups anticipating your devices getting confiscated.
Unfortunately identity theft is common these days, most people don't even know that they are victims of it.
Unless the country in which the business is registered makes corporate registrations (and officers) public.
But Apple is an American company? If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever, Apple has to abide those sanctions, even if he's not sanctioned in whatever country he lives in.
Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information about the author: https://blog.kulman.sk/about/
What a shame that comments keep mentioning Russia just because the author's name is not "John Smith" or something.
Nothing should be less controversial for Apple to specify, than legal reasons beyond their control.
Had this all the time before I changed my name.
Thankfully Oracle aren't the only cloud platform, of course. Which makes it even more fun telling my friends and colleagues how shit Oracle Cloud are whenever the topic of cloud providers comes up even funnier.
On the other hand, Apple's position of dominance here makes their refusal to answer a GDPR subject access request all the more galling.