[site update: About pages]
Among the many links in the past 24 hours, a handful of sites have gone digging to try and find out who *I* am. It never occurred to me that this would be newsworthy :). I setup this site with no links to myself or my background, leading to some misunderstandings, and some confusion about what this site is for.
I’ve just updated the first post (What’s App Rejections All About?) with some clarification on my aims with the site.
I’ve also added a bunch of info on me personally to the About page, which should hopefully reduce the other confusions…
November 27th, 2009 at 6:32 am
All those developers who’s aps have been rejected by apple, develop for the android phones. Then you know ur not wasting your precious time only to be rejected.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
What, you missed the opportunity for self publicity! ;)
Great idea for a site Adam, it deserves to do well.
I see that you got picked up by mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/11/26/iphone-app-rejections-get-their-own-website-115875-21852699/
- Jez
November 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Also on The Inquirer!
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1563722/app-rejects-world
November 28th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Also Download Squad
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/27/new-website-covers-the-rejected-iphone-app-beat/
November 28th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Alot of apps gets rejected from android also, no big difference there.
Tethering, where did you go?
November 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
@ Håkan
Tethering = Alot? Colour me confused…
Got many more examples or is it only tethering? (I’m genuinely interested)
November 29th, 2009 at 8:01 am
@Hakan. The difference though between Android and Apple, is that 3rd party applications can still be installed other ways. Apple has blocked all mechanisms to allow apps to be distributed and installed onto the iPhone (other then jailbreaking, which is basically hacking the iphone). There is also nothing stopping users from setting up their own application stores on Android also.
That being said, I think this site is a good idea, but that opinions by the author should be kept to comments rather then embedded in the posts (because, it sounds like the author is making excuses for Apple on the late posts sometimes, which makes it seem a bit dodgy).
November 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
@Andy
re: authorial bias – this isn’t an Anti-Apple site, it’s a site for balanced, egalitarian reporting of what’s actually happening. I’ve already rejected a handful of app rejections that people have sent me because they were, simply, *absolutely normal* and 100% predictable. I’m not here to give free publicity to spammers and lazy app-designers who believe that the rest of the world exists simply to make cash for them.
My primary aim is to document the whole range of the grey area between ACCEPT and REJECT, so that developers can *work out for themselves* what to try, and what not to try.
So … expect my commentary to veer back and forth between pro- and anti- sentiments, dependent upon the individual case and how close it sits to the “white” side of grey, and how close it sites to the “black” side of grey…