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Last autumn (2009) there was a new wave in “latest big money-making startups” on iPhone: app-recommendation apps. One of the leading apps – AppsFire – has just given up on Apple’s approval process, and pulled their live app from the store:
[Apple:] We’re pulling Appsfire v1.0 so that you don’t have to.
We have a new tag [...]
I don’t believe it – Apple approved another flashlight mirror app. In clear violation of their own policies (it even uses an illegal “screenshot” on the iTunes page), Mirror in your pocket FREE is now up on the app store:
(no screenshot, sorry, because Apple won’t allow uploading files from ipads; I’ll try to add it [...]
Finally (finally!) we can use the world’s best web-browser for mobile-phones – and it’s free. After years of “will they / won’t they”, Opera Mini is now available for iPhone:
“Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.”
What’s changed? Maybe the storm of press attention when Opera implied it was [...]
Wurlit is one of many apps that allow you to find apps on the app store that you might wish to buy. Apple provides all the app names and info as a public resource on the web and internet. So, it would be fair enough to use that info to improve the app, right? To [...]
Sometimes … sometimes, it’s not so great to sneak one past Apple’s review team. In this case, the tie-in for the movie Kick Ass was accidentally published on the App Store. That’s not so bad, you may think, except … the game was a long way from finished, with the artwork “missing”, and the gameplay, [...]
You are Hot! has been rejected – seemingly because someone at Apple *had a theory* that it might – one day – fill up with porn. So, it’s been rejected:
“We’ve reviewed your application and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains objectionable content and [...]
The unfair iPad rejections have started. Web Albums shows galleries of photos, and so they decided to provide the gesture that Apple has added to iPad for quickly previewing an album. Oh no, says Apple:
Apple sent a letter to the developers noting that the pinch to expand feature is “associated solely with Apple applications.”
This seems [...]
It’s hard to tell whether this is a serious app, or just a particularly high-class form of pretend app (the authors aren’t presenting it as a joke, but apparently it isn’t based on fact either – it’s based on their personal guesses). Tawkon claims to “predict” the radiation that your phone is subjecting you to, [...]
Here’s a great example of how to get a time-limited free app (just like standard Shareware) on the App Store. Tawag Pinoy and zPhone lite are free, but after 30 days you can no longer use them, and have to upgrade to the paid version. According to Giro Apps … first time around, Apple rejected [...]
Vemedio’s Snowtape is an app for listening to internet radio, recording it, and playing it back later. It’s been rejected for the record/playback part. There are two issues here: aside from the rejection, Apple appears to be admitting explicitly that there is no public, official rule against this behaviour, only a secret, internal, rule:
I tried [...]