OVERTURNED: Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition
Another example of using tactic #2 (”contact the press, shame Apple into submission”) when getting Rejected apps overturned, this time for Bobble Rep 111th Congress Edition [
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“The developer, Ray Griggs, said Apple reversed its initial decision after a FoxNews.com story this week about claims that the caricatures, in particular a drawing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, were “offensive.”"
What was so wrong with this app that it got rejected in the first place?
Apple’s rejection letter for Griggs’ app states: “Thank you for submitting Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains content that ridicules public figures.”
The e-mail … included an image of Pelosi that it deemed “offensive.”
For reference, this appears to be the image in question (taken from the article linked above):
December 31st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
[...] No details from Matt, but my guess is that this was a plain re-submission, inspired by the (eventual) success of other, overly political, apps, such as Bobble Rep (OVERTURNED). [...]