I've been in a new city for a while, now.

When it comes to getting to know a new city, I like to pick a remote destination of interest within a walking distance /* Which usually is a supermarket, or an electronics store. */ && just pay attention to surroundings on my way there.

Using Google Maps myself, since it works quite well in my area.

Today /* Technically yesterday, since currently it's past midnight, but the event took place a few hours ago, but whatever. */ I have found this interesting landmark.

I give up. It‘s impossible to argue with Apple.

I tried to bring my unofficial iOS devRant app "JoyRant" into the AppStore. It was available via TestFlight for years and it wasn‘t a problem there, apparently. Now for the AppStore, it is a problem.

I talked with the Apple review team for 3 weeks and the discussion went in circles.
They said that my app tries to disguise as or to misrepresent another app on the store (the official devRant app, even though it‘s not available anymore, apparently).

I was asked to remove all of the mentions of devRant from any description or any place in the app. I did. Even though it was stupid because how are people supposed to know that they need a devRant account to use my app? I‘m not allowed to mention devRant.

After that, they said that it can not have the name JoyRant because it sounds too similar to devRant.
I changed it to devJoy everywhere, the app, the meta data for the app store, the github page where the required legal crap is hosted, and in the legal documents themselves.
Did it help? No, it didn‘t.

Apple then proceeded to claim that my app is trying to deceive the users into thinking that this is the official devRant app. Even though I have explicitly stated in the description that it is just an unofficial devRant client.

Now apple says that I should "revise the app content".
Which I assume means that I need to make it something different. Yeah. Great suggestion!

So, I will rename the app back to JoyRant and provide it via TestFlight, as it was before.

Thanks for reading. I needed to vent.

Honey, load my shotgun

Today I made a fucking BANGER ui for my project. Y’all gonna shit your pants when u see it

Week : 56 ( Year 1 )

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