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This is nothing new, but … I often get asked about this topic by new iPhone developers, and recently I saw a particularly simple and clear example of:
you cannot tease your users with features they can never get with that particular version
Follow the link for a very simple screenshot.
Now … I need to keep an [...]
For anyone with an iPod Touch, this is a disaster. For IT support people and network engineers, this is a massive pain. For anyone outside their home country, this is an expensive pain … Apple has banned WiFi scanners from the app store. Not just one, but all of them:
Wi-Fi hotspot detecting applications are the [...]
Women, they are *dangerous*. Well … allegedly, that’s Apple’s current stance on anything that could be conceivably using images of women as a sales tactic. Holopic is an interesting app that creates a very good simulation of 3D photographs on the iPhone screen. Sadly, they chose to include images of scantily-clad women in their demos:
Unfortunately [...]
You’ve all seen this, of course. But some have been afraid to copy/paste any of the contents, in case Apple sued them. Now … the EFF has done you a favour by making a public copy, through cunning use of the Freedom of Information Act (excellent work!):
today we’re posting the “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement”—the [...]
Followup from PULLED: multiple apps … (for “overtly sexual content”) … Apparently we’re already at 5,000 apps, and counting, pulled for “sexual content”.
Jon Atherton managed to get a detailed response from Apple over what’s not allowed:
1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! [...]
In typical Apple fashion, it’s major but (apparently) silent: large numbers of apps are being pulled from the App Store (see below for linked examples – some of these are safe for viewing by teens and pre-teens under standard Parental Guidance rules). A couple of examples (1, 2) suggest this form letter:
Dear [developer],
The App Store [...]
It’s only a temporary rejection – easy to fix – but worth noting as something to avoid. Hipstamatic’s latest version got rejected for running a contest, but not having enough info in the app description on iTunes:
“…It would be appropriate to provide official rules of the contest within the application which clearly state that that [...]
Poor O’Reilly; they’d already had one ebook rejected for having “iPhone” in the title. Now, their ebook Take Control of iPhone OS 3 has been rejected for talking about JailBreaking:
Apple’s only answer was that we would “need to remove the section on jailbreaking.”
What’s the offending text? Does it have source code? A step by step [...]
Scant details on this one (the developer concerned was interviewed by their regional paper, but apparently they “don’t do” developer blogs in Ireland). It seems they were rejected for sending emails from the phone via a server with a single email address:
The application allowed users to create their own card from scratch, customising the background [...]
For anyone following the “yes, you did”, “no, we didn’t”, “I’m telling the FCC!”, “please don’t sue us – sue our partner!” Apple vs. AT&T vs. Google debate here’s a fun one: AT&T released an excited press release (NOTE: that is allegedly not the original release) implying that – thanks to AT&T’s hard work – [...]