{"id":5656,"date":"2014-12-10T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2014-12-12T20:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:32:45","slug":"me-and-my-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"Me and My Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying for 3 weeks to get signed up as an Apple Developer so I can publish a mobile app to the App Store for my favorite client.<\/p>\n

And I’ve been thwarted at every turn. D-U-N-S numbers that don’t match. Legal entities that are inconsistent. A multi-step enrollment process that you have to go through every step from start to failure every time. 14 day turnarounds to update a record in a database.<\/p>\n

Now, my company’s revenue is about 3×10-5<\/span>% of Apple’s, but it just seems like a bad idea to make it difficult for people to write applications to run on your platform.<\/p>\n

Edit 12\/12\/14<\/b>: This story has a happy ending. I finally gave up on their email support and called them on the phone. A real person answered the phone. After describing my problem, he put me on hold for a minute. He came back on and said everything looked like it should work. I tried it again and read off the error message I was getting. He went away for another minute and then came back and said, “try it now.”<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, it all worked.<\/p>\n

That’s the first time I’ve been impressed with anything Apple’s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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