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Comment on PULLED: multiple apps … (for “overtly sexual content”) by App Rejections » Blog Archive » UPDATE: >5,000 apps now pulled (for sexual content)

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:46:18 +0000

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Comment on PULLED: multiple apps … (for “overtly sexual content”) by Bastion

Bastion — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:54:57 +0000

Well, birth rates sexual activity rates.

I think Europe and Canada have sex as much if not more than folks in the USA — they just have fewer puritanical problems with prophylactics. (And that’s your alliteration for the day!)

The prudish, inability to have meaningful discussions about sex leads to misinformation and non-information; this ignorance leads to poor reproductive decisions, and an increase in the birth rate.

Comment on REJECTED: Hipstamatic (for running a contest) by 2008年最強iPhoneゲームの続編 BIA2 がついにリリース！な朝刊

2008年最強iPhoneゲームの続編 BIA2 がついにリリース！な朝刊 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:08:14 +0000

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Comment on PULLED: multiple apps … (for “overtly sexual content”) by XC

XC — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:09:29 +0000

“who live in normal countries where we actually have sex … i.e. not the USA”

Uh, fertility is much higher in the US than it is in the UK, Europe and in Canada. This is due, of course, to immigration and traditional mores and a host of other factors.

So, maybe you guys are spending too much time warming up and talking about it and less time competing. Just saying.

Just saying.

-XC

Comment on OVERTURNED: SlingPlayer Mobile (AT&T’s network now “good enough”?) by Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:02:01 +0000

Indeed, if a partner did interfere dosn’t that have rather nasty potential consequences for Apple over the Google apps rejection: Apple explictly denied that AT&T were involved or could be involved, after all.

Comment on LIBRARY REJECTED: AdMob (for using location to serve ads) by App Rejections » Blog Archive » LIBRARY REJECTED: OpenFeint (for “no user benefit” Location checks)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:59:24 +0000

[...] was no surprise that Apple now rejects AdMob apps for this, but here we have examples of OpenFeint being rejected. OpenFeint is primarily a social [...]

Comment on LIBRARY REJECTED: NimbleKit (private API names) by Alexander Voloshyn

Alexander Voloshyn — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:20:41 +0000

@drunknbass: why would you think NimbleKit would parse something? There are numerous ways of creating obj-c/js bridges and only couple of them are forbidden. What you say is not correct, they accepted over 200 NimbleKit based apps, doing that regularly for 8 months, of course they know about obj-c/js bridge. You can’t parse by yourself, but you can use Apple’s classes for that, javascript is parsed using UIWebView only, so there is no violation. Also, there are planned Apple seminars “My first iPhone Application” to start end of January, NimbleKit stuff was invited to the event by Apple company to present NimbleKit on seminars for 20 days in 5 different cities, I really doubt they would do that if they don’t not know how NK works and it’s capabilities. And of course Apple would not teach their users to use framework just to reject all their apps later.

Comment on STILL REJECTED: Google Voice (but…it’s better this way) by Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:49:38 +0000

Heh I mean that had to have known that the application would be rejected, although it raises interesting questions about the decision making that goes along with application review. Keep submitting it

Comment on LIVE: iCall (VoIP on 3G) by adam

adam — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:02:42 +0000

(NB: I’m not trying to say that iCall’s setup is “nefarious”; I thought that the details of what I said, along with the sarcastic “sooper sekrit” terminology, would make that clear. There *are* nefarious apps out there that have used exactly this same approach, but I do not believe iCall is one of them)

@Arlo

“There was nothing nefarious and the functionality of the application did not change, only a setting changed.”

Quoting from your own iTunes page:

“3G 3G 3G 3G! You can now use iCall over 3G networks!!!”

I have nothing against what you did, personally. But please don’t claim things that are clearly not true: adding 3G is a major change to the functionality of your application.

According to Apple’s datestamp (last updated 30th November 2009), you did this without updating the application. iTunes currently allows you to change your iTunes description whenever you wish, so this was an easy change to make.

Comment on LIVE: iCall (VoIP on 3G) by Arlo Gilbert

Arlo Gilbert — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Thanks for keeping up with our application development but I would like to take a brief moment to clarify that we have not done anything “sekrit” or “back door”.

Our application is a VoIP application, no “be good” versus “be bad”… every time iCall starts it checks in with our central servers to determine lots of things such as whether you are a paying customer or a free customer, to register with the VoIP gateway to receive calls and a handful of other things.

Many of the settings relating to iCall are not stored permanently on the software itself but rather are returned to the application each time it starts up, one of these many settings was the “can I talk over 3g” setting.

When Apple modified their terms regarding 3G, we only had to change a switch on our servers.

There was nothing nefarious and the functionality of the application did not change, only a setting changed.

While I can appreciate that there is a concern about applications changing their behavior after approval, from a practical standpoint I have never seen it happen. If a developer really turned on a “be bad” button they would quickly be banished from the development process for eternity ( I assume ).

Again, thanks for writing a nice blog, we enjoy your site.

-Arlo Gilbert, CEO
iCall, Inc.