Comments on: More on Keywords in App Store Listings & Other Rumored Upcoming Changes

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:50:47 +0000

In reply to Mike. LOL - well, the current 'system', with its great levels of communication, seems like it might be run by the old-school Kremlin.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:43:21 +0000

Wonder how many apps have names that describe itself. Uh more than half i'd guess. I'm sure the most popular of the 50k will keep their competition as keywords. Someone call the FCC, BBB, and whoever else. Better yet! Maybe we should have Obama oversee Apple. Introduce gov run iPhone app store. Sweet.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:34:23 +0000

In reply to Brian.

"So Beejive wouldn't be able to put AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Facebook, or any of the many other networks they support as keywords? Keywords can't be copyrighted terms? Does that mean the hundreds of twitter apps can't have a keyword of 'twitter' or 'tweet'?"

Surely in these cases Apple's renowned open and extensive communication with developers during the process will come to the rescue. Oh crap – sorry – was living in some odd parallel universe where Apple communicated well with anybody, for a moment there. 🙂

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:02:47 +0000

Other app names won't be allowed in keywords? So Beejive wouldn't be able to put AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Facebook, or any of the many other networks they support as keywords? Keywords can't be copyrighted terms? Does that mean the hundreds of twitter apps can't have a keyword of 'twitter' or 'tweet'? (I'm assuming those are copyrighted trademarks.)

I'm a fairly pessimistic person, but I won't say this is for sure going to completely fail. However, all I really see so far is more ways for Apple to reject apps when they're already doing an incredibly poor job at having clear and consistent guidelines for approval.