Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why
(blog.kulman.sk)47 points by ingve 4 hours ago
47 points by ingve 4 hours ago
As someone learning Japanese, that seems very much like an app I would want and love. I hope you are able to sort this out soon so I can buy it!
Also Igor, if you are reading this, your GitHub and LinkedIn icons in your sites header link to GitHub and LinkedIn's homepages rather than your profiles. Probably want to fix that ;)
You may be right. His name sounds Russian or Slavic. Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there.
It's almost certainly fraud or AML concerns. Companies are not allowed to explain this stuff.
Just sign up with someone else's name.
Had this all the time before I changed my name.
I got the same thing trying to sign up for Oracle Cloud.
Thankfully Oracle aren't the only cloud platform, of course. Which makes it even more fun telling my friends and colleagues how shit Oracle Cloud are whenever the topic of cloud providers comes up even funnier.
On the other hand, Apple's position of dominance here makes their refusal to answer a GDPR subject access request all the more galling.
I've been consistently saying this online - "app stores" and "developer programs" are all about control (and exploitation) and we developers need to consistently boycott it. There is a real need for us developers to form a Union and lobby for regulations to prevent such kind of abuse and exploitation by the BigTech. If we don't act now, it is going to be too late to do so. The onslaught against our rights and freedoms, by BigTech, is the beginning of a new form "digital imperialism" where we are only seen as "labour" and "consumer".