Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
- Subject: Re: There must be a live human at Apple?
- From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 00:46:43 +0000
Thanks Alex,
I'll call in a few minutes, but it may be after hours.
I've always known the Apple main switchboard number, so I can call any
Apple employee if I know their name.
I've always know that a new Apple ID would work around this problem,
but to the extent I possibly can, I prefer to stay connected to but
one actual developer account. I actually change my Apple ID from time
to time, but only by changing the contact mail at an existing account.
That way I keep my history of Radars all in one place.
I expect Apple's coders take my Radars rather more seriously that way.
Twice now I've filed quite serious OS X kernel bugs, then received a
patch directly from Apple within days, that was released to the public
in the next minor OS X Software Update.
However, I have always been under the impression that were I to
contact Apple DTS to point out to them that they have a glaring bug in
their own code that quite likely is costing them millions per year,
I'd have to pay for a support incident just to get anyone to listen to
me.
All I really require is for anyone at all that could ultimately
provide the fix, to go read that Radar.
To fix that bug just for me would take less than one minute, but only
certain people have direct SQL access to Apple's financially important
databases. I did not want them to hunt down those people, then
distract them from what would make far more of a difference to more
people.
A general fix, for everybody, quite likely is to delete just one line
of code. My guess is that while we are _presented_ with a choice of
Individual or Corporate each time we register or renew, the actual
storage of that choice in the back-end database, is only made when one
registers for the very first time.
Mike
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
> Call up Apple and ask them yourself.
>
> i did yesterday.
>
> https://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.php
>
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Michael Crawford wrote:
>
>> Leaving Money On The Table Is Bad, MMKay?
>>
>> Could get a live human at Apple to change my iOS Developer type from
>> Corporate to Individual? My Apple ID is:
>>
>> email@hidden
>>
>> My Corporate membership expired well over a year ago. My board of
>> directors totally bailed on me. While there are some advantages to
>> self-incorporation, it is a huge PITA. For iOS really sole
>> proprietorship would be better.
>>
>> However, it is simply not possible for me to register as an
>> individual, after having been previously registered as corporate,
>> despite that corporate registration being long expired, and the
>> corporation itself no longer in business.
>>
>> I've been waiting for two solid months to get Warp Life into the App Store:
>>
>> http://www.warplife.com/life/
>>
>> === It's ready to submit the very instant I have a dev account. ===
>>
>> For no reason I can fathom, it is simply not possible to get a job of
>> any sort as an iOS developer, unless one already has at least one
>> published App.
>>
>> There's no particular requirement that that App not segvio on a
>> regular basis; I'm left with the impression that no one ever actually
>> checks.
>>
>> I'd love nothing more than to live where I'm living right now, working
>> as an IOS Developer. The Pearl District of Portland Oregon is up to
>> its eyeballs in iOS shops, but until I can get that one first App into
>> the App Store, no one will touch me with a ten foot pole.
>>
>> In My Honest Opinion, if one cannot build then test iOS source code,
>> one has no business _whatsoever_ hiring an iOS coder.
>>
>> So quite commonly I offer my source - there aren't really any trade
>> secrets in it - but no, that doesn't even get me a return eMail. It
>> makes no sense to me, but it really is that bad.
>>
>> I filed a radar about this a couple months ago, but no one has
>> responded in any way. Quite likely it has yet to be triaged.
>>
>> It is quite common for me to find serious problems with Apple's web
>> applications, and from time to time I do file radars on them but in my
>> experience, the people who do Apple's web coding must not ever read
>> radar.
>>
>> I actually worked at Apple, on two different occassions. Look me up,
>> you'll find a whole bunch of radars that I either opened or closed.
>>
>> It should not have to be this way, and it was not when I worked there:
>>
>> Apple's quality has been totally decimated in the last five years or
>> so. When the money keeps rolling in...
>>
>> Ever Faithful,
>>
>> Michael David Crawford P.E., Process Architect
>> Solving the Software Problem
>> http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
>> email@hidden
>> +1 (805) 235-1267
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