Archive for April, 2010
ACCEPTED: Opera Web Browser (despite “competing” with Apple’s browser)
Finally (finally!) we can use the world’s best web-browser for mobile-phones – and it’s free. After years of “will they / won’t they”, Opera Mini is now available for iPhone: “Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.” What’s changed? Maybe the storm of press attention when Opera implied [...]
REJECTED: Wurlit (for searching the app-store)
Wurlit is one of many apps that allow you to find apps on the app store that you might wish to buy. Apple provides all the app names and info as a public resource on the web and internet. So, it would be fair enough to use that info to improve the app, right? To [...]
ACCEPTED: Kick-Ass (despite missing art and “fake” screenshots)
Sometimes … sometimes, it’s not so great to sneak one past Apple’s review team. In this case, the tie-in for the movie Kick Ass was accidentally published on the App Store. That’s not so bad, you may think, except … the game was a long way from finished, with the artwork “missing”, and the gameplay, [...]
REJECTED: You Are Hot! (for allowing “user content”)
You are Hot! has been rejected – seemingly because someone at Apple *had a theory* that it might – one day – fill up with porn. So, it’s been rejected: “We’ve reviewed your application and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains objectionable content [...]
REJECTED: Web Albums HD (for using Pinch-to-expand)
The unfair iPad rejections have started. Web Albums shows galleries of photos, and so they decided to provide the gesture that Apple has added to iPad for quickly previewing an album. Oh no, says Apple: Apple sent a letter to the developers noting that the pinch to expand feature is “associated solely with Apple applications.” [...]