Archive for June, 2010
ABANDONED: iReddit (for unfair rejections)
Reddit.com has long had an iPhone app (iReddit), but has finally given up on the app store, after one-too-many mistaken rejections by Apple: We’ve had too many legitimate bugfixes rejected from the store because the reviewer of the patch happened to check on a day when someone made a poop joke or our thumbnailer did [...]
ACCEPTED: Cell Phone Tracker (fake app)
This is fascinating. Here we have an app that not only deceives in the app name (it doesn’t “track cell phones” – this may be pedantic, BUT … misnaming an app has been a cause of rejection over the past few years), but does nothing else of any use or value. It’s a joke app. [...]
WITHDRAWN: AppsFire (for 6 weeks in submission)
Last autumn (2009) there was a new wave in “latest big money-making startups” on iPhone: app-recommendation apps. One of the leading apps – AppsFire – has just given up on Apple’s approval process, and pulled their live app from the store: [Apple:] We’re pulling Appsfire v1.0 so that you don’t have to. We have a [...]
ACCEPTED: Mirror app (despite being useless)
I don’t believe it – Apple approved another flashlight mirror app. In clear violation of their own policies (it even uses an illegal “screenshot” on the iTunes page), Mirror in your pocket FREE is now up on the app store: (no screenshot, sorry, because Apple won’t allow uploading files from ipads; I’ll try to add [...]