Archive for December, 2009
OVERTURNED: Minipops (for ridiculing public figures)
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 [...]
PULLED: P***y Lovers (for pretending to be porn)
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 [...]
APPROVED: KaChing (after adding some features)
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 [...]
ACCEPTED: Dragon Dictation – despite uploading your Address Book
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 [...]
OVERTURNED: Knocking (live streaming video over 3G, via Private API)
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 [...]