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REJECTED: FarmVillain (for mentioning Chuck Norris)
Here’s a new kind of rejection: Pre-Emptive Rejection, where Apple thinks someone “might” complain about your app. FarmVillain – a clear parody of Zynga’s FarmVille – lets you post dark and sinister Farm-related-gifts to your Facebook Wall. Rejected. For upsetting Zynga? Actually, no: “We’ve reviewed FarmVillain and determined that we cannot post your application because [...]
REJECTED: Camera+ (for using volume buttons to take photo)
TapTapTap tried to add a nifty feature to Camera+ (one of the more popular camera-apps on the iPhone): rather than press a random part of the screen, use the volume buttons as a shutter-release. Unfortunately, despite other apps already doing this, Apple-says-no: “Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone [...]
REJECTED: Walt Mosspuppet (for referencing a real person)
Taking the theme of political rejections and expanding it general parody of any famous person, Apple’s rejected Mossboard – a soundboard app with quotes from Walt Mosspupper: “Mossboard’s rejected because it contains references to Mossberg. But tell me ALL 61 apps that come up with a “bieber” search are licensed.” NB: I haven’t seen the [...]
Jailbreaking *is* legal – US Library of Congress
The US Copyright Office has declared that jailbreaking your iPhone is legal under Copyright law / DMCA – (although note: Apple could still go to court to challenge this): “the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make [...]
LIBRARY REJECTED: Unity3D (for private APIs. Again!)
Oops. Looks like Unity isn’t doing enough regression testing / unit testing on their codebase. The same piece of .NET that got Unity rejected – temporarily – almost a year ago has resurfaced in the Unity 3.0 Beta: cannot be posted to the App Store because it is using private or undocumented APIs: Spi Symbols [...]