Comment by Aurornis

Daring Fireball is doubtful:

> Whether Godier ever submitted a build of “Asterly” to the App Store that contained no occult horseshit and only the hard-science astronomy features that were present in his “Dark Hours” website that was available for the last week, I don’t know. But I have no reason to believe that he did.

His original submission was an astrology app. He then stole someone else’s open source repo, reskinned it, and tried to pass it off as his own app.

He is not a trustworthy person. He was trying to manipulate and deceive. I see no reason to point fingers at Apple for this.

He was trying to leverage anti-Apple sentiment for free publicity for himself and he thought nobody would notice that he stole the app and, brazenly, the name “Dark Hours” from someone’s open source project.