Archive for November, 2009
ACCEPTED: Toginfo (despite using private API)
This will either attract great joy and happiness … or mass wailing and gnashing of teeth. Apple has just accepted an update *despite* acknowledging its use of a private API: During our review of your application we found it is using a private API, which is in violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement [...]
LIBRARY REJECTED: Google Toolbox + Torque2D (for “deprecated” API)
According to Apple reviewers, the word “deprecated” (which usually has a specific technical meaning) is now a synonym for “private” (which usually has an entirely distinct meaning): games being rejected based on “a private API”, which is funny because its actually an Apple OS API function that has merely been deprecated – they just like [...]
REJECTED: ShakeCharge (“we will never accept it”)
Inspired by “all kinds of fart apps”, one developer created a joke app that pretends to recharge the battery by shaking the phone: [the Apple reviewer] on the phone told me : “Please don’t ever re-submit this application, we will never accept it. Spend your time and energy on other applications.”
LIBRARY REJECTED: NimbleKit (private API names)
Nimblekit (create applications for iPhone by writing an HTML page with Javascript) is apparently being rejected for – yet again – private APIs that … aren’t actually being referenced. But, you know, they have THE SAME NAME as some private APIs, so that’s bad enough, no?: NimbleKit will instantiate your obj-c/js class and call setParameters, [...]
REJECTED: Grand Tour-3D (for a joke about money)
Add another to the list of “pedantic interpretation of the rules, with no regards to common sense” – Grand Tour 3D []: The concern was with a statement about the “cost” of my app in the description as it might cause confusion in foreign markets … “Costs about $149,999,995.01 less then the Voyager probes.”