Serious question: how is this different than a grocery story making their own cheaper versions of products and placing them in better locations throughout their store? Large grocery chains do this on a large scale today, right?
Hmmm, one could choose other grocery stores to distribute their products but developers can only distribute their app in one store.
If you spent months or years developing an app and apple reject it, you have no way to go. You can’t make it android or web without significant rework. Even if it is accepted, it might get sherlocked by Apple in WWDC. Not to mention your app could break every year at this time round when new iOS is released.
This is the risk of an indie iOS developers and the risk have not lessen over the years.
Here one heartbreaking post from an indie developer:
