Apple can reinstate my developer account today, tomorrow, or next week. It won’t change a thing. I won’t go silent just because I got my account back like most of the developers that went public & and pretend nothing happened after getting it back. I’m done building my future around the possibility that an automated decision could erase years of work overnight, with no meaningful way to challenge it. And im not waiting for apples automated ticket to catch up. 1. I’ll be distributing nova via Website download & practicing my rights to distribute freely as a developer via download via website link. 2. I’m going to build an alternative to the App Store. And when independent native app distribution becomes available globally, I intend to be there competing. But to build something with genuine purpose. A marketplace where developers are treated as partners, consumers have real choices, and great products earn their place through merit. We spent over a year building Nova, won two industry awards, and earned our users’ trust. That reputation wasn’t handed to us by Apple. We earned it. Apple can keep its App Store, its standards, and its rules and its awful catalog of dull “MRR” apps. I have no interest in taking that away. I want to prove that you can build a successful marketplace by empowering developers instead of making them dependent on you. This stopped being about one developer account a long time ago. It’s about making sure the next generation of builders has a choice we never had. @Apple @AppStore you guys have not only pissed off your developers, but you pissed off the crypto community for removing nova. The power of these communities is like no other. 2027 will be profound year.

Apple called me about Nova’s termination. The woman on the other end sounded distressed to me. I got off the call feeling for her. She wasn’t the person who made the decision, but she was the one who had to deliver the news. For a developer, termination can mean losing years of work, a business, and the income their family depends on overnight. People can become desperate and furious. The employee making that call can end up facing all that pain and backlash over a decision they didn’t make. That’s why I’m keeping her name private. She deserves privacy and respect. My frustration is with the specific people in App Store leadership responsible for these termination decisions. Those leaders should be willing to make these calls themselves. Talk to the human beings behind the accounts you choose to delete. Explain why. Hear what that decision means for them and their families. Developers deserve to be heard by someone with the authority to do something about it. Great leaders lead from the front. They stand behind their decisions and face the people affected by them. If you can make the decision to delete someone's life, you should be the one to make the call.

Developers terminated by @Apple @AppStore without warning or explanation: We’re organizing a group chat of affected developers to launch a major public campaign. Reply to this tweet to be added in that group. Behind every terminated account is a business, a livelihood, and real people whose lives have been disrupted. It’s time our stories are heard.