Apple Rejects Astronomy App Dark Hours as Astrology

Apple's App Review process functions as an opaque black box where obvious errors are double-downed on rather than corrected.

* Bureaucratic Incompetence: Reviewers and appeal boards failed to spend even seconds interacting with the app, mistaking hard astronomy for astrology and fabricating non-existent features.

* Broken Escalation Infrastructure: Appeals within Apple's review pipeline routinely rubber-stamp initial reviewer mistakes instead of providing a fair judicial check.

* Developer Frustration: Rejecting high-quality, native iOS-exclusive applications actively harms Apple's own platform ecosystem and alienates talented independent developers.