Comments on: ACCEPTED: Toginfo (despite using private API)

By: Joachim Schuster

Joachim Schuster — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:29:37 +0000

Fantastic!? That’s purely arbitrary. I doesn’t see the problem with being rejected for the use of a obviously undocumented function call.
The good thing is, you can check it before you upload it.
Why some should be exempt from the rules?

What’s realy anoying is to be rejected because of ‘minor use’.
What kind of rule should judge, if a consumer may find it ‘of minor use’?

By: AR

AR — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:18 +0000

I had three weeks ago an application rejected for use of private API. The app was actually not using it – it had it only within a method that was never called (leftover from testing), but they probably check only for reference, not if it is acutally called – anyway, I was fine with the rejection and upload a new binary, but didn’t find the time to recompile right away. A couple of days later I got email that application status changed to ‘ready for sale’ – without me doing anything ….

By: RosebraeTech

RosebraeTech — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:07:33 +0000

Fantastic news, an outbreak of common sense at last! And a much better way to deal with things like this, IMHO.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:01:31 +0000

well done Apple.

Much better to give developers a gentle slap and accept the app – with an instruction to clean it up by the next release.

Altogether much more sane.