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It's their platform. They can run it however they want, short of doing something illegal. Why is this still surprising?

It's also perfectly normal for people to react and condemn a business which appears to be behaving in either an irrational or bad-faith manner. Why is that so surprising to you?

"Legal" is not the same as "good idea" or "immune from criticism".

Because it's by its nature arbitrary. After all of these years (I've been developing since iPhone OS 3), they still have problems managing developer expectations.

Even if Apple is predictably bad about this, each instance of them bringing the hammer down is still a surprise, because that's the nature of the problem.

It's scary.

People spend a lot of time developing applications, and Apple will very inconsistently cause all their efforts to be wasted.

Maybe people should reevaluate what they're spending their time on.

This is kind of a surprise but most of them aren't, and are spelled out in the Dev agreement. Usually when you talk to someone at apple it makes a lot more sense than what's in the email, and the issues are pretty easy to address.

Then people should spend an additional minute thinking about what they are going to do and if that actually has reason for success.

Developing a calculator that sits in the NOTIFICATION area of an OS does not strike me as thought out. Especially seeing as how gigantic this particular one is.

Is it surprising to you that Apple has an issue with an app that makes a mockery out of their notification center by completely obscuring literally every notification in there?

And here I thought devs were smart enough to read "Notification Center with widget ability" and figure "Well, I guess I could put a notification widget in there" and not "Ooh, sweet. that's where my calculator goes"

It's not surprising. It is, however, annoying and worth pointing out.

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