App Store: a few bad apples or one bad Apple?

My blog post yesterday, App Store review allowed a Meta Muse copycat, highlighted not just one but three obvious scams currently in the App Store. Reactions such as this Reddit comment are frustrating but common: Considering the thousands of apps submitted daily and the queue management the App Store maintains, it’s easy for some apps to fall through the cracks. To call it abitrary [sic] and that it “doesn’t even work” is a bad and reductionist take based on outliers. I understand the frustration as a developer, but compared to other options, pretty much just the Google play store, it’s night and day The same commenter later adds: You literally have no idea how many apps are caught before they reach the App Store and how much manual review and touches are involved. You are seeing the tip of the iceberg from a limited, outsider perspective. Not saying that some misses are clearly misses, as you pointed out with your example, but you are ignoring hundreds to thousands of apps per…