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I wonder if that is because of the technical skill required to do app reviews. If you are "too competent" as a coder, obviously you'd go and be developer somewhere else instead so I suppose it is kind of a requirement for people who reviews app submissions to not be as competent as developers as those people submitting the apps?

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I doubt you have to be a full on developer. Probably along the lines of a QA tester. Some overlap for sure with developers but a different skillset mostly. I think it would be interesting to work as one for a while just to see how the sausage is made though.

I agree but there is a thin line. I've seen a lot of really good QA testers slowly start patching issues on their own and grow into proper developers. I think there is a very small window where a QA tester can be the best QA tester he/she can without getting into the developer territory especially if it involves reviewing code.

Then Apple should pay their reviewers enough that they're able to do their job without having to jump ship to another employer. It seems like Apple doesn't care enough to do so, though.

It's too bad that there isn't real competition on iOS app distribution.

That's not what I was implying at all. It's not about money. If a person learns to actually write software on their QA job, why would they not do it for a living? In most cases, it's a more satisfying job to have. The assumption I made was that if a QA person who also reviews code a lot becomes really good at the job, they are very likely to try and become a developer themselves.

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