REJECTED: Tawkon (for pretending to monitor radiation?)
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, and has a very nice UI for showing this. Apple has rejected it, although the grounds for rejection are unclear:
a diagnostic tool of this nature would create confusion with iPhone owners from a usability perspective [NOT a direct quote from Apple]
(unfortunately, the only info comes from an informed but detail-poor TechCrunch article that has more than a whiff of poor journalism)
Ultimately, the developer’s site contains no info on why this is anything other than random guess-work with a pretty GUI. There’s a single unsubstantiated claim on the website, that appears to have tricked the TechCrunch journalist into a more positive spin:
“tested by a leading RF laboratory to comply with the most stringent cellular standards worldwide.”
…which simply means “this doesn’t do anything bad to your phone”, but by the TC article, becomes:
“They claim the app has gone through lab testing to ensure its output is correct.”
Overall, the app is suspiciously close to a fake. In which case, it’s likely that Apple rejected it on the grounds of “deceiving users into thinking this is real when it’s not” (a cause used frequently to reject joke apps)
