App Rejections

Minipops, which *barely* parodies public figures, was originally rejected back in May, but is now up in the app store:

I got an email over the weekend from Matt (the clever guy who made the app work) saying he’d resubmitted it and it had been approved. Some of you may remember that it was rejected twice, [...]

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Despite the name, Pussy Lovers is a family-friendly app, containing a bunch of photos of cats. The name – and the description – represent an adult joke, and apparently were enough to get it pulled from the App Store:

I received a call from someone at Apple and he said that the apps were being removed [...]

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I avoided the initial rejection because there was nothign interesting about it, other than the author. However, KaChing, the app that does nothing but make a cash-register sound when you run it, has now been approved now that they’ve added a very basic feature to it and resubmitted, and that definitely *is* interesting :

So what [...]

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This has bothered me for almost 12 months now: Apple has no protection against apps uploading your entire AddressBook to the web, and selling your friends’ email addresses for cash. Or worse. Dragon Dictation is a high-profile app that just got spotted doing an AddressBook upload (names only):

Dragon Dictation for the iPhone goes through your [...]

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Is the policy on Private API’s gradually changing? Does it still work to contact Steve Jobs personally when begging to break the rules? Knocking shows that the answer to both those questions may be “yes”:

An Apple executive, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted Meehan at 8:30am the following Monday morning to discuss the app and [...]

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Since the start of the App Store, we’ve all known of developers who’ve spent a few thousand dollars buying multiple iTunes accounts to buy extra copies of their app – and push themselves into the top-25 charts. I’d heard rumours of crackdowns about 6 months ago, but here’s an example of a cheaper and subtler [...]

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One of the recurring problems with making iPhone Apps for major brands/companies is the issue of timing. Marketing campaigns revolve around fixed dates (magazines going to print, 1-day conferences taking place, etc). Apple provides no avenues for scheduling iPhone app launches. But the authors of iMiles recently went for the tactic of, well, begging (nicely):

I [...]

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This never got rejected … but the story behind the Flash on the Beach app (for the 2009 conference) is useful background to another app which was recently rejected:

a nasty bug was recording the location as being in the middle of Brighton no matter where you were on the planet. So you and all [...]

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A quick note: my re-submission of Summation just got accepted.
(I got rejected for using Private API’s to modify UIAlert – a common workaround for bug(s) in the UIAlert dialog).

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Did you know you can be rejected for the mature / adult content of your application *icon*?. Sadly, this one is also a great example of some of the laughable, self-serving appeals that Apple have to put up with from the … less reasonable … app-developers.

Put yourself in my shoes:
You are a developer. [...]

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