作者：Seth Fiegerman

苹果应用审核过程常让不少开发者和用户心生不快，殊不知这些苹果应用评审员也有自己的苦衷。

tim-cook-iphone-apps(from businessinsider)

苹果前高级工程师Mike Lee（游戏邦注：他曾在苹果全球开发者关系团队就职）表示，苹果应用评审员真是一份苦差事。首先，应用审核团队与其他苹果部门一样，经常处于人手短缺的状态。

据其所称，“人们总认为苹果在印度就有100个应用评审员，实际上这是一橦苹果大楼中的所有人数，与其他苹果部门一样，应用审核团队经常找不到足够出色的人才。苹果也不愿意以次充好，以扩招人员来弥补精英不足的缺口。我保证这个团队规模远比你想象的要小得多。”

更糟的是，这些应用评审员实际上都要处理成堆的应用。虽然这些产品中也有一些高质量应用，但也充斥着大量劣质产品，所以评审员“有可能无意筛除了一些瑰宝”。

应用评审员还经常收到带有性意味图片的应用审核申请，他们不得不投入大量时间“排除可能含有性暗示内容的应用”。他告诉媒体：

这是一个非常严肃的问题，所以他们得尽量筛除这些不良内容以免其呈现在用户面前。他们会指定一个人整天坐在那里筛掉这种内容。苹果并不想搞人海战术，他们坚持聘用真正明智、教育良好、训练有素的成员来干这份工作。这也意味着有些苹果正式员工得专职干这种筛除不良内容的工作。

Lee表示这也正是苹果拥有如此严格的审查制度，并且能够有效排除略带情色元素内容的真正原因。这并不全是因为乔布斯奉行让用户免受情色信息之扰的原则，苹果力图高效审核应用的理念也是其中原因。

他指出，“解决这个问题的唯一方法就是拔高筛除不良信息的标准，有时候甚至连带有黄瓜图片的应用都会被拒之门外。因为如果不这样做的话，就会导致评审员花大量时间讨论某些内容是否涉黄，这是一种极浪费时间的做法。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，拒绝任何不保留版权的转载，如需转载请联系：游戏邦）

Here’s Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple

Seth Fiegerman

Apple’s app review process gets a lot of hate from developers and customers alike, but before you judge Apple’s reviewers too harshly, consider what they have to put up with.

Mike Lee, a former senior engineer at Apple who worked on the company’s Worldwide Developer Relations team, says that working as an app reviewer can be a lousy job for several reasons.

For starters, Lee says the app review team – like many of Apple’s departments – is very understaffed for the task at hand.

“People have this idea that there are 100 people in India doing app reviews,” Lee tells Business Insider. “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.”

To make matters worse, Lee says the app reviewers are essentially tasked with managing a slush pile of apps. Yes, there are quality apps, but he says there is so much garbage that reviewers “may accidentally toss out the gem.”

In fact, garbage may be putting it mildly. Lee tells us that app reviewers are frequently bombarded with app submissions that have pictures of male genitalia. And no, we’re not talking about the occasional image here and there. Lee says that Apple’s employees are forced to spend lots of valuable time “sitting there looking at things that may or may not be d*cks all day long.”

Here’s what he told Business Insider:

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 way 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 actual employees sifting through a pile of d*cks.

This, according to Lee, is the real reason why Apple has such a strict censorship policy and blocks out any apps that can be construed as the least bit pornographic. It’s not just Steve Jobs felt a responsibility to give users “freedom from porn,” it’s that Apple desperately needs a way to expedite the review process.

“The only way to deal with it is to set the bar so far away from d*cks so that even a picture of a cucumber gets blocked by accident,” he says. “Because if you don’t, you have people spending hours and hours of conversation on whether something is a pubic hair. It’s a huge waste of time.”（source:businessinsider）