Apple is full of Bullshit
I’m not an Apple user. Never have been, and I wish I didn’t make the choice, but I’ll soon be. It’s partly because of the swag, partly because of broadening my experience, and finally because it’s necessary to develop anything for their platform.
Here’s one thing that irks me about that company: they herd their users to comply with their straight and narrow processes. This itself will not be a problem, if those processes were flawless. Personally, I prefer stricter, clearly defined processes, the good old “One True Way” to accomplish something. In my perfect world, everyone goes through one door, without options, so it’s easy to understand the system and find where things are broken.
Unfortunately, Apple’s doors are very flawed, they scream at the hinges when pushed open, and if you’re unlucky and they don’t budge, you’re screwed.
Creating a developer account for a company if you’re not in the First World is a bureaucratic nightmare. Shocking, that we’re dealing with one of the most successful tech companies in 2016.
To see the sharp contrast between their marketing pages (apple.com) which glow with eye-seducing photography and worn-out marketing puns to push forward an almost totally shallow message, and their developer pages that see actual work getting done, is disheartening.
If it takes 14 days to update a record in D&B’s database to get a D-U-N-S number, something is wrong with Apple’s systems (which rely on whoever the hell those people think they are) to work.
If I have to contact Apple so I can change the name of my Apple ID (without any explanation for why such a seemingly trivial detail is so important it can only be changed by Apple Support), you know something is wrong. The door is not working flawlessly.
Sad, it’s the only door I can use.