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Title: Former App Store head blasts 'arbitrary' App Store guidelines Post by: HCK on October 08, 2020, 04:05:17 pm Former App Store head blasts 'arbitrary' App Store guidelines
Phil Shoemaker pulled no punches in blasting his former employer. What you need to know Apple's App Store guidelines are "arbitrary", "arguable", and "a weapon against competitors". That's according to the former head of... erm... Apple's App Store. Phil Shoemaker blasted the marketplace and further claimed Apple Arcade violated Apple's own guidelines. Apple's former App Store head, Phil Shoemaker, has lambasted the company over its "arbitrary" and "arguable" App Store guidelines, describing them as "a weapon against competitors." The revelation was made in a massive report submitted by the House antitrust subcommittee regarding anticompetitive behavior from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. From Business Insider: Rather than doing this to protect users, as Apple claimed, Shoemaker said the company implements "arbitrary" and "arguable" App Store approval guidelines, and uses its control of the App Store "as a weapon against competitors." The former App Store direc... Source: Former App Store head blasts 'arbitrary' App Store guidelines (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/_5-eatJIzSQ/arbitrary-app-store-guidelines-weapon-against-competitors-says-former-app-store-head) |