Archive for March, 2010
REJECTED: Snowtape (for saving radio music, despite this being allowed)
Vemedio’s Snowtape is an app for listening to internet radio, recording it, and playing it back later. It’s been rejected for the record/playback part. There are two issues here: aside from the rejection, Apple appears to be admitting explicitly that there is no public, official rule against this behaviour, only a secret, internal, rule: I [...]
REJECTED: DoubleMill (for showing locked premium-only features)
This is nothing new, but … I often get asked about this topic by new iPhone developers, and recently I saw a particularly simple and clear example of: you cannot tease your users with features they can never get with that particular version Follow the link for a very simple screenshot. Now … I need [...]
REJECTED: [many apps] (for finding available WiFi networks)
For anyone with an iPod Touch, this is a disaster. For IT support people and network engineers, this is a massive pain. For anyone outside their home country, this is an expensive pain … Apple has banned WiFi scanners from the app store. Not just one, but all of them: Wi-Fi hotspot detecting applications are [...]
REJECTED: Holopic (for containing photos of women)
Women, they are *dangerous*. Well … allegedly, that’s Apple’s current stance on anything that could be conceivably using images of women as a sales tactic. Holopic is an interesting app that creates a very good simulation of 3D photographs on the iPhone screen. Sadly, they chose to include images of scantily-clad women in their demos: [...]
OTHER: EFF publishes Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
You’ve all seen this, of course. But some have been afraid to copy/paste any of the contents, in case Apple sued them. Now … the EFF has done you a favour by making a public copy, through cunning use of the Freedom of Information Act (excellent work!): today we’re posting the “iPhone Developer Program License [...]