Comment by camhart
4 years ago
Some may not agree with the use of parental control/accountability software. That's fine. Truple is not designed for you. There are tons of people who are negatively impacted by technology and they desperately need/want help. They should have the option to get it, and there should be competition in the space to deliver the best product for them. In today's world, using the internet is a part of life, and isn't something you can reasonably go without. Truple was built to help people learn to use technology responsibly with the help of their loved ones.
The platform is wary of surveillance applications, which often have off-label use as stalking tools. It's not so much about whether people agree with parental controls or not; it's that Apple sets a different standard for intrusive parental control software than it does for other tools, because parental control tools are widely misused.
If that's the problem you're running up against here, and not that you somehow embedded malware/adware into your app that they screen for, I think you might have trouble getting anywhere with this.
Then why do they allow competitors to do it? They should be facing the same issues.
I have to imagine the answer lies in the interpretation of the rules you quoted in your post: My app is in alignment with it... I've made sure since day one that a "reasonably suspicious" notification is present when the app is monitoring.
Could you elaborate on what your version of this reasonably suspicious notification compared to your competitors actually is?
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What's your hypothesis about why they're not letting you do something? Do they just not like you? That seems unlikely.
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If you think they should do more, then the first step can't be criticized on the grounds that it's not the last step.
Presumably, more will come.
Any software like this will, without fail, be used by abusers to do things other than blocking pornography. If it only did that one thing this wouldn't be a problem.
This app is lit. Can it track location or take photos from the camera (and selfie cam) from time to time? My circle of parents and friends are looking for something like this as there is rising concern of child abuse here.