I heartily applaud and encourage Apple to spend their manpower on reviewing apps that are either new to the store or are updated with notable new features.
If Joe Stump is so concerned about the good name of his app being ruined by 1-star reviews then why doesn't he remove it from sale using the control panel on iTunes Connect? Or add some comments to the app information? Instead he seems quite content to continue charging money for it.
Frankly I find his attitude distasteful. He seems most upset that his Apple connections didn't lead to him receiving a "get out of jail free card" after he failed to learn his lesson about the value of QA.
I agree, I read this and I just didn't see how developers were "being raped." The users? Yeah, they got screwed.
It's one thing when AT&T leans on Apple to prevent a Google voice app, which somehow AT&T feels threatens them. Or even the hazy definition of porn that is applied to other apps, I suspect Apple is completely within their rights but I can understand some of the developer outrage. It's entirely different when developers want to cash in quickly and put out buggy and inferior software quickly and hope to be one of the "made a couple million in a month on the iPhone" stories. If you don't want "one star reviews" then don't submit one star software. And since when is it Apple's job to identify these defects? If anything, Apple is doing it's paying customers a service here.
You don't get too many chances to screw up in front of your customers without it having an impact.
If Joe Stump is so concerned about the good name of his app being ruined by 1-star reviews then why doesn't he remove it from sale using the control panel on iTunes Connect? Or add some comments to the app information? Instead he seems quite content to continue charging money for it.
Frankly I find his attitude distasteful. He seems most upset that his Apple connections didn't lead to him receiving a "get out of jail free card" after he failed to learn his lesson about the value of QA.