If this story proves anything at all, it’s that being a rock star and going on a curse laden-laden rant is basically the only way to get an application approved at the App Store.
If you remember correctly, it was only a few days ago that Trent Reznor, the head man of Nine Inch Nails, went on a bit of a tirade when the update to his application, nin: access, was rejected due to objectionable content. The main issue he had with the rejection was that the content, a 1994 album titled Downward Spiral that contains some foul language, wasn’t even a part of the application, it could simply be streamed through the application.
Apple received a hefty amount of backlash from this whole event, and it now looks like Reznor was able to draw enough attention to the issue to make Apple simply cave. Just today, Reznor posted this on his Twitter feed:
NEWS FLASH: Apple has approved the NIN iPhone app update. Should be live in a few hours.
Only moments after that tweet, he finished with this bit of news:
The NIN iPhone app is unchanged, the “issues” seem to have been resolved.
It’s sad that it takes this much of a public outcry to fix some of these issues, and what’s even more sad is that this is just a single case. Many more developers suffer from these odd quirks in the system, but the problem is that they aren’t rock stars, so they don’t get the same amount of attention. Maybe, just maybe, Apple has finally learned their lesson. We can dream, can’t we?
