In recent weeks, we have discussed several times about the applications in the App Store that were published only with the idea of stealing users' money. Then I questioned the seriousness with which Apple employees do their work, but it seems that they would not have at their disposal everything they need to carry out their work in excellent conditions. A former Apple engineer who was in charge of app approval in the App Store says that the Apple teams that have these tasks do not have enough people to review all the applications in a timely manner. He says that Apple does not want to offer this job to any type of employee, the engineers in the teams being specially chosen, the company not discounting the employees' ability to check the applications that are going to reach the App Store.
People have this idea that there are 100 people in India doing app reviews. It's just people in a building at Apple, and like every other part of Apple, they can't get enough really good people. Apple will not compromise the quality of its teams to fill it in. I promise you its a lot smaller than you imagine.
Although employees are able to review applications at their leisure, the problem is that the extremely large number of applications received by Apple cannot be reviewed quickly by the small number of employees. An equally big problem lies in the fact that many applications received by Apple have nothing to look for in the App Store and it seems that applications with pornographic content represent a very large part of them. Apple employees receive daily a very large number of applications with pornographic content and their verification/rejection requires a lot of time, so that really useful applications have to wait for days in a row until they reach the attention of a developer.
It's a very serious problem, trying to filter out things that no one is there to see. Somebody has to sit there and filter out all those d*cks. You can't let all those d*cks get through. You have to err on the side of safety. You have to have people sitting there looking at things that may or may not be d*cks all day long. Apple refuses to farm stuff out to massive groups of people. They insist on having actual smart, educated, well-trained people doing the job. So that means they have to have some of their current employees sifting through a pile of d*cks.
Practically, the small number of employees and the very large number of bad applications make the life of Apple engineers difficult, but that does not excuse the fact that all kinds of bugs reach the App Store every day.
