This is exactly what the review process for the Play Store is like, even worse for Google TV apps. Often times just re-submitting multiple times without changing anything at all will get it pushed through.
Yeah but despite how much HN hates Google everyone here will do whatever it takes to get on their app store. Google has the power to make the entire industry their bitch.
So much this. Mozilla barely breaks 10k installs out of our total 1million installed base.
We had a really frank internal discussion about just dropping support for Mozilla because their review process is also the most expensive out of every client we currently ship (And not "reasonable expensive"... Useless time sink expensive, back and forths with folks who I would frankly not hire as a junior because they can't read a readme file and follow basic and clear instructions.)
They are acting like they have the position to demand these reviews... and they just don't.
Good devs just leave because they're a waste of time and money, and they're STILL rampant with malware on their store (Mozilla is literally the only one of the major vendors that will make a listing live with no vetting, and then 4 months later yank it because of "problems"...).
It doesn't make me feel secure, it makes me feel like they're trying to market security. It makes me really dislike mozilla, and firefox was a formative part of the my tech career early.
