Archive for November, 2009
[status update: mea culpa]
The site has been very slow overnight – sorry, my fault entirely. Should be fixed now. (for those who are interested … I had changed the default debian configuration to limit the webserver to 1/7 the normal number of clients. This is an excellent way of preventing the server crashing under high load, and was [...]
APPROVED: Sonorasaurus, Touch DJ (after 70 days)
It seems that DJ apps may now be “allowed” by Apple: this past week saw two approvals of apps that had been in limbo for months (e.g. Sonorasaurus [], Touch DJ [] ). Although … a third one caught in submission around the same time is still under review (DJ Player).
REJECTED: My own app! (BrainGame:Summation)
Oh, the irony! I, the author of a blog collating app rejection reasons, just got an Update rejected, for Summation. I’m still chuckling over this :). I was using a VERY common workaround to some bugs in the official Apple APIs. So common that I’d forgotten they were even in there! Fortunately, several other people [...]
REJECTED: Postage (but Apple’s claims are “impossible”)
This is what happens when unskilled staff (Apple’s app-reviewers) are given a technical tool (the secret static-analyer) which they don’t understand – but trust 100%: Reject apps that haven’t done anything wrong, but which the tool (incorrectly) flags, in this case Postage []: The notice from Apple indicated that we had used a private method [...]
OVERTURNED: 3D camera – for following Apple’s instructions
This is beautiful, 3D Camera []: Apple creates new API, tells everyone to use it Apple advises everyone to check that features are usable before using them A developer uses the feature, but checks the iPhone version, and provides a graceful fallback Apple rejects the app … for using Apple’s “recommended” API’s. Why? Because old [...]