Comment by verall
4 years ago
> The original version of the app I submitted for notarization had the Truple logo, with a red dot/circle to indicate recording and make it more suspicious. The redesign I did dropped the red dot/circle because competitors weren't being forced to do anything like that.
Doesn't this seem kind of damning? Like you admit the recording dot is suspicious, so you remove it because why? Are you targeting anyone that isn't fully aware of what the truple notification means, maybe because they are a child or otherwise mentally compromised?
Put on the hat of the end user. Keep in mind the end user is a child, or someone struggling with an online addiction/behavior they want to quit. They welcome the app, but those issues are somewhat personal. There's a balancing act I'm trying to walk here, of being reasonably suspicious while also not publishing for everyone who peeks over their shoulder that they're using an app like this.
Again, if the red dot matters, I'll add it back.
> Put on the hat of the end user. Keep in mind the end user is a child, or someone struggling with an online addiction/behavior they want to quit. They welcome the app, but those issues are somewhat personal.
This sure as hell reads to me like you’re trying to hide the fact that you’re recording vulnerable user’s screens from them.
You can read into it however you want. It wasn't my intention.
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You seem to be sticking a hood over your eyes and pretending that your app is only used for the most morally sound use cases you can think of. You've written something that enables abusive relationships and helicopter parenting and you should be ashamed.
Please keep this kind of emotionally-manipulative, anti-intellectual flamebait off of HN.
Apple's reasonable concern here might be that the end user isn't a child, or even someone who consents to have the application running.
No. He literally just said he added the dot to make it more likely to be arppoved, then he realized it's unnecessary and removed it.