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What regulation requires you to publish an app? That strikes me as very unusual.

Nothing requires us to publish an app -- but when you make LOB software, the user-base is like "where's the App?" -- so you build one. It's not a strict, absolute requirement -- it's a de-facto requirement (like passing to the left)

Did you try with a PWA? Discoverability can be hard vs having an App Store listing but I wonder if that would satisfy your user-base if you made it into a nice experience

Since our struggles (starting in 2016) for this ; feature sets on mobile browsers have improved -- and we've learned more too -- we've mostly dropped "App" type support and have it 99% Bowser based. The only thing we're not able to get now -- but also no longer NEED -- is tight integration with Bluetooth IR/NFC/RFID type scanners ( the Socket Mobile is very popular in our universe -- https://store.socketmobile.com/products/durascan-d750-univer... )

As for Android -- Google is also Cannabis hostile but side-loading onto Android is a breeze (by comparison to iOS)

what? how does that have anything to do with regulatory compliance then?

I don't think you get it; I'll try again.

  - Our app was for business regulatory compliance obligation.
  - Our clients asked for us to get into the App store (customers love that shit for some reason)
  - The process sucked for us.

I seems like you think we had a regulatory compliance obligation to be in the App store -- we did not; and do not. I only got into this thread because dealing with Apple sucks -- and sucked for us especially hard.

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