Does Apple’s App Store shadowban reviews or reviewers? Is there documentation on how they handle disputed reviews? I have noticed that Google sometimes does this (Shadowban reviews) on Google Maps. I also saw lots of reports of it in their forums. With guidance on what to do if detected. I sure wish more review systems would do things more like the yelp way. IE a “not recommended” reviews grouping. Much more transparent and less subject to successful manipulation. Or at least Amazon way where if they don’t publish your review day I’ll let you know. There’s a balance between censoring fake glowing, scathing and competitor reviews and just censoring negative reviews. I’m seeing a problem with censored app reviews in Apple’s App Store/Stores.

Here's part of why syncing (Contacts, Calendar and Reminders etc.) is so unbelievably slow and CPU-intensive. (Suggestion/ idea) AppleOSes are storing and communicating and comparing HEX values as STRINGS: They should be doing all that with the raw values. That would use half the space. 4 bits per hex digit instead of over 8. (0xF is 1111 in binary, of course) Proof of the error: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8164982?answerId=32580805022#32580805022 varchars!! Just on one MacOS system, the Contacts and Calendar syncing agents have used many hours of CPU time since last reboot - so surely that's got to add up to an average of over a year of CPU Time over the life of each of Apple's over a billion active devices. And there's the environmental impact: If Apple switched to binary representations on all their current devices, I wonder how many tons of CO2 credit that would generate, per Apple's own accounting!? And impressive wins to announce at a future Apple Event! Those wasted resources could be not used, or used for error detection and correction to reduce data corruption. (Can't believe Apple failed to adopt ZFS and if I'm not mistaken, doesn't use ECC RAM (Error Checking and Correcting Random Access Memory) in any of its current hardware products, but that's a bit of a tangent.)

I'm trying to troubleshoot some things by using the iPhone Simulator and I'm running into problems at every step. I'm unable to install apps. For every app I tried, I got an error like: (I'm not sure what I should be munging - advice welcome) Failed to load Info.plist from bundle at path /Users/user/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/02F3C6F1-D98C-munged-CEE15C81A8A7/data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.XuaeCX/extracted/Any.app; Extra info about "/Users/user/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/02F3C6F1-D98C-munged-CEE15C81A8A7/data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.XuaeCX/extracted/Any.app/Info.plist": Couldn't stat /Users/user/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/02F3C6F1-D98C-munged-CEE15C81A8A7/data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.XuaeCX/extracted/Any.app/Info.plist: No such file or directory I can't send Messages or turn on Messages in iCloud. I try and set a passcode and it won't stick. Simulator running on an M1 MBA, macOS 11.2.3. Default iPhone (12 Pro Max, iOS 14.5)

I tried to upload a screenshot and got "An error occured while uploading this image. Please try again later." Let's see if this works: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0AziOmDe1WNzvXgu_t4uOStgg For those hesitant to click: Sorting by PIDs results in this order 351 (!) 352 56573 56572 56571 (note reverse order of last 3) 0 1 313 314 317 318 ...

In the user interface, Apple says: iCloud Private Relay keeps your internet activity private Private Relay hides your IP address and browsing activity in Safari and protects your unencrypted internet traffic so that no one-including Apple-can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting BUT when I look at the Apple IT support documentation the above is contradicted. Based on it, what would be true is: iCloud Private Relay keeps your WEB activity private Private Relay hides your IP address and browsing activity in Safari and protects your unencrypted WEB and UNENCRYPTED APP traffic. In addition to the corrections I made above, the rest of it (below) is just…terribly problematic! I’m not even sure how to correct it but it’s wrong. Agreed? I mean any aware user is (likely) going to know that if you tell a website like your bank) who you are, while using iCloud private relay (IPR), it will know who and where you are. But they’ll also know your IP, since Apple is saying only to us that encrypted internet traffic doesn’t go through IPR. This would include HTTPS, SMTPS, IMAPS, GOPHERS, … And even a fairly savvy user reading the following isn’t going to realize that Apple is not fixing the Panopticon problem, meaning that as is, the following part is generally false and de deceiving: …so that no one-including Apple-can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting. What’s a customer going to think when they realize that our apps aren’t delivering what Apple‘s promising because it’s inconsistent about what is promising to who? Is there already discussion going on about this? seems like a big issue… Fortunately, Apple is saying the product is in beta, so they will likely be extra open to and relatively responsive to feedback. But I wanted to talk with other developers about it so that’s why am bringing it up here. Maybe I’m misunderstanding stuff.