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Apple’s libraries often include fundamental features that are needed to create good apps – but which Apple hasn’t yet “blessed” with their “permission” to use. You can use them, fine, with no bugs – but Apple will reject your app. With iOS 4.0, Apple is now rejecting any apps that use the famous UIGetScreenImage call, [...]
Pretty funny, given Apple’s prudishness… Phillip Shoemaker, who allegedly heads the app store process at Apple, is also the owner/ex-sole-developer of a startup that made fart apps, urination apps, etc: Titles include a fart app called Animal Farts, a urination simulator called iWiz … “Simulate the experience of urinating for a long time,” iWiz’s app [...]
Last year, Apple rejected KaChing Button, by the developers of iFart. All it did was play a single sound effect. The app was approved a month later, after a big media campaign to get it overturned, and a trivial change to the app. Are single-sound apps now allowed? Apparently not, if iGipper is anything to [...]
Here’s a new kind of rejection: Pre-Emptive Rejection, where Apple thinks someone “might” complain about your app. FarmVillain – a clear parody of Zynga’s FarmVille – lets you post dark and sinister Farm-related-gifts to your Facebook Wall. Rejected. For upsetting Zynga? Actually, no: “We’ve reviewed FarmVillain and determined that we cannot post your application because [...]
TapTapTap tried to add a nifty feature to Camera+ (one of the more popular camera-apps on the iPhone): rather than press a random part of the screen, use the volume buttons as a shutter-release. Unfortunately, despite other apps already doing this, Apple-says-no: “Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone [...]