Articles Tagged ‘rejection’
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Apple Pulls Camera+ Over VolumeSnap Easter Egg
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu August 12th, 2010
Today's new episode of the great Camera+ story: Apple has now decided to pull the app. I know, it's unfortunate when apps get pulled. Yet, this time around, they really deserved it.
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Steve Jobs: "If ten guys rob a bank and don’t get caught, that isn’t much of a defense if you do"
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sat July 10th, 2010
The corollary of the well-known lack of clear written rules in the App Store's review process is a certain lack of consistency. Sometimes, certain apps make it through when they shouldn't, often it's the opposite. As reported by Macstories, this is pretty much what happened to Trailers this week.
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iFart HD Rejected: A Blessing Or A Curse?
BY Joe White on Wed June 02nd, 2010
iFart Mobile was once #1 in the App Store. But why has it's old HD brother been rejected? Read on to find out more.
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Steve Jobs Replies: No In-App Desktops
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue June 01st, 2010
My Frame's developers got a call from Apple this week informing them that their app is getting pulled, without much additional information. Like so many angry developers before them, they took the issue to Steve Jobs and got their answer.
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Developer Records App Store Rejection Phone Call
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu May 20th, 2010
iSlam Muhammad's developer contacted Apple over his app getting pulled, and recorded the call.
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First Blood: Apple Says No To iPad Multitasking - Pulls Dashboard Apps
BY Alexander Vaughn on Fri April 02nd, 2010
When Apple said the iPad won't multitask, they really meant it. Indeed, we're hearing rumors today that Apple has apparently decided not to tolerate the so called "dashboard apps" on the iPad. These apps, like
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Apple Doesn't Want Developers Mentioning Android In App Descriptions
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri February 05th, 2010
The developers of Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab just been caught in the crossfire of Apple and Google's war. Apple has asked the developer to remove a portion of the app's description which states that
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Waveboard 2.0 Gets Rejected Over Joe Hewitt's Code
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu November 19th, 2009
We've told you a couple days ago about Waveboard, the first Google Wave iPhone client, getting updated. The second edition was principally going to bring us Push Notifications and a quick inbox feature. Unfortunately Dirk
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Apple Claims Ownership Of Shiny Chat Bubbles; Yet Another Controversial App Store Rejection
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue September 01st, 2009
An update to Blunder Move's Chess Wars, a game that allows users to play chess with friends via Facebook Connect, has been rejected due to chat bubbles that too closely resemble Apple's own SMS app
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Apple Forcing All Developers To Remove 'Free Memory' Functionality? Or Just Some?
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri August 28th, 2009
According to the developers of iStat, a system and battery monitoring app for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple is now forcing developers to remove functionality from apps that allow users to "free memory" with
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Convertbot Update Rejected Over Time Icon, The Same Icon Used Since v1.0
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri August 28th, 2009
An update to Tapbots' handy iPhone and iPod touch conversion app, Convertbot, has been rejected because the icon they had been using for "Time" too closely resembles Apple's own built-in "Recent" icon. It's understandable that
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Phil Schiller Again Responds To App Store Criticisms
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed August 12th, 2009
Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Marketing, has once again decided to respond to a developer's criticisms of the App Store. It seems as if Phil Schiller is taking it upon himself to defend and
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App Store Approval Process Update
BY Mahmoud Hafez on Tue August 11th, 2009
In a time where all you can read about it is how broken the App Store approval process is and why "tech celebrity" types are "ditching" the iPhone, this article serves as proof that Apple
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Paid Version Of Offender Locator Pulled From App Store (UPDATED)
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri August 07th, 2009
Offender Locator is a fairly high-profile app that allows users to locate registered sex offenders. It had been hovering right around the top five paid apps for quite some time, that is, until yesterday. According
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Apple Bans Developer And 943 Of His Apps
BY Ian on Mon August 03rd, 2009
It's time to hear from Steve Jobs himself about Apple's policies for rejection and whether the iPhone should be an open platform.
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Apple Pulls Google Voice-Enabled Apps, Rejects Official Google Voice App
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue July 28th, 2009
TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has started pulling all apps from the App Store that take advantage of Google Voice's functionality. The reason given for the removal is that the apps "duplicate features that come
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Calling All Developers - Help Put An End To Unfair App Rejections
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed June 03rd, 2009
We are always here to lend a helping hand to all of you App Store developers out there, and today we have a special request from David and Susan Lee at GP Apps. David and Susan
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REJECTED: Remote Control for BitTorrent
BY Ian on Mon May 11th, 2009
Despite acceptence of similar app, Drivetrain is rejected even though it doesn't actually download or upload files from the iPhone.
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Apple Rejects NIN app Update
BY Dave Clarke on Sun May 03rd, 2009
Trent Reznor, the man behind the music of Nine Inch Nails, posted a twitter update saying the app update for the NIN app, nin: access, has been denied: Apple rejects the NIN iPhone update because
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Apple Apologizes For Approving Baby Shaker App
BY Dave Clarke on Thu April 23rd, 2009
Earlier today
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