I believe it’s just a case of “right hand doesn’t know what left hand is doing, and forgot to give clear instructions in the first place”.

A few sites have attempted that before. Unfortunately, there were some major barriers.

I’m hoping to build up a library of examples FIRST, and then I (or other people) can build the things you suggest on top of that.

Also: by doing this site as a blog, you’ll be able to see at a glance how old / out-of-date each example is.

(I’m trying to pick “most recent examples” wherever I can for now, and once I’ve caught up on all the major examples, I can blog them in realtime as they happen, rather than pointing to things from months ago)

Love your site.

This particular rejection gave me an interesting thought: maybe you could maintain a list of these rules and uber-rules as you discover them, prioritized in Apple’s own capricious order.

This would be helpful to all us developers scared of making a misstep in creating/updating an app, and might also be useful for developer appeals when Apple break their own internal rules. At the very least, if each rule points to the case(s) it is derived from, we will then have precedents to argue.

In developer terms: if they won’t tell us the rules, perhaps with enough data we can reverse-engineer them.

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