Tag Archives: approvals process

About a week ago an Italian app named Future Mail was approved, even though it makes use of private APIs. As Steve Jobs said, the use of private APIs is no longer accepted due to some problems users have had (and could have in he future). This is the email from …

What will they think of next, those ever so clever iPhone developers who help make the App Store such a wonderful place.  We already have the devs who produce dozens of apps that all do essentially the same thing but manage to occupy 10 screens in iTunes “ see this …

I keep wanting to lay off this topic a bit, and then Apple serves up another gopher ball and I just have to swing at it.  The latest example of the stunning lack of common sense used in the App Store review ‘process ‘ (cough) involves a Twitter client app …

Image Source: blifaloo.com After all the myriad of stories on Apple ‘s stupid, inconsistent, and thoroughly unclear process (or lack thereof) for approving and rejecting apps, and a number of recent headline-making rejections, there is possibly some good news on the way on this subject. According to a report at …

And while we ‘re at it, I ‘ll voice the same issue I had with Wal-Mart years ago, which is a matter of consistency and hypocrisy. Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and ‘clean ‘ versions be made for …

Image Source: http://centrepedal.blogspot.com/ Wow “ here ‘s something you don ‘t see every day / month / year / lifetime “ Apple is apologizing for dropping the ball and letting the horrific Baby Shaker app into the App Store (albeit briefly) yesterday. Apple Inc. is apologizing for allowing a 99-cent …

I know “ if you wanted to you could moan and groan about this subject every day, all day “ and I don ‘t have any plans to go that route.  Today is just one of those days where you see something in the App Store that just makes such …

We all know by now that the App Store approvals / rejections process throws up some crazy, inconsistent, even unfathomable decisions on a pretty regular basis.  We see examples of this nearly every week. I have to imagine that this can make life a complete nightmare for iPhone developers trying …