“No One Minding the Store”
Developers have been frustrated about the lack of attention Apple has been giving the Mac App Store for months now, but the recent issue with the expired certificate has developers who’ve built a business around it up in arms.
Here’s Michael Tsai summing up the frustration:
The Mac App Store is supposed to make things easier, but it’s also a single point of failure. Not only is it neglected, but sometimes even the existing functionality stops working. Mac OS X 10.9 introduced a code signing bug that prevented me from submitting updates for several months. In June 2015, there was a month-long iTunes Connect bug that prevented my uploaded build from entering the review queue. And I currently have a bug fix update that Apple has been reviewing for 33 days (with 8 days of waiting before that). When I inquired about the status, Apple told me that everything was normal and that I should just keep waiting. In short, the system is broken on multiple levels, and there is no evidence to suggest that things will get better.
The article has some quotes from a variety of Apple Developers and it’s a shame that they now have to answer hundreds of their customers’s emails and anger, for no fault of their own.
