Michael Tsai:

If you were designing a system primarily to protect customers, the last thing you’d want is for the entity reviewing apps to be making money on each one sold. And, just as you’d expect from such an arrangement, we see scammy apps among the top sellers and legitimate apps rejected for business rather than safety reasons.

The App Store is holding the platform back. There’s a lot that Apple could do to improve the status quo, but apps would still be rejected for absurd reasons and garbage games designed to separate you from your money will always find their way to the top of the charts.

They need to either open up the platform to allow installation of native apps from outside the App Store or a massive improvement to support for progressive web apps. Developers and users need an alternative without having to move to Android.

➝ Source: mjtsai.com