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Just When You Thought App Store Decisions Couldn’t Get Any Stupider …
Now an iPhone app gets rejected for ‘minimal user functionality’ We’re still seeing all the repercussions from Apple’s recent ban on ‘overtly sexual’ apps, and they’re typically inconsistent application of the new policy. Now they appear to have made another, equally stupid, change of course on what is acceptable in …
App Store Climbdown of the Week: Bobble Rep
It seems like nearly every week now we get a version of the following scenario to enjoy courtesy of Apple and the elite (and tiny and overmatched) corps of App Store app reviewers: an app gets rejected for farcical / nonsensical / blatantly inconsistent reasons; the rejection gets spotlighted in …
The App Store’s Most Embarrassing Moment?
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he ‘s done with the project: ‘Time for me to try something new. I ‘ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, …
App Store Needs to Change the ‘When the Shit Hits the Fan’ Approach to Review ...
Wouldn ‘t it be nice if sometime or other Apple could get to a point where it doesn ‘t seem like crazy App Store decisions are only ‘fixed ‘ when the shit hits the fan at a bunch of high profile web sites? This week ‘s high profile ‘WTF are …
Latest Stupid App Store Rejection – eWallet, for Using an iPhone Icon That’s B...
Apparently someone is on a graphics kick over at the Apple iPhone app approval center. Thanks to the iPhone card icon in our application, Apple has rejected the eWallet update. Even though the icon has been there since we released eWallet (the week the AppStore went live), apparently the icon …
Stupid App Store Decision of the Week – Dictionary App Censored
Just when Apple makes one fairly positive App Store move, then they hit us with another decision that clearly shows how ridiculous and badly broken the reviews non-process is. This decision is right up there in the Top 5 (easily) most incomprehensible App Store decisions ever. They ‘ve censored a …
Apple Adds Insult to Injury on Google Voice Apps Removals
Image Source: TheFreeDictionary.com Now this is ridiculous. Not only did Apple pull all the unofficial Google Voice apps out of the App Store for an absurd reason, now they expect the developers of those apps to fund refunds out of their own pockets. Yikes. If this is accurate, it really …
Apple Adding Keywords to App Store Listings = Bad Idea
Image Source: BuzzFeed Today ‘s major bit of iPhone App Store news is that Apple has asked developers to start adding keywords to App Store listings. Here are the details of this, posted at iLounge earlier: Apple has begun asking developers to list keywords for their applications when submitting, in …