“I’m about to tell you a true story. It’s not about me (honest). I have this friend who submitted an application to Apple for review. After a few weeks, it came back with one of those embarrassingly stupid rejection letters that said more about the person reviewing the application than it did about the application itself. In a nutshell, the application violated one of those user interaction rules that seem to exist in certain pompous minds rather than in the actual Apple Human Interface Guidelines. […] After a day or so of calming down, this person decided to go ahead and resubmit the application. And did so without making a single change to the application. I’m sure you know where this is going.”
The Apple Defense Brigade should be along any minute now to explain why this is actually a *good thing,* and why anyone who thinks otherwise is a stupid philistine.
Actually, Apple advocates as well as advocates of other OSes (like me) are waiting for you to stop trolling every Apple thread you see.
When you stop making it so easy
With the exception of its sole supporter, Tyrione, I believe that the entirety of the active membership body of OSNews has already openly condemned App Store policies.
This is a thread that you’ve no plausible cause to troll. 🙂
Edited 2008-11-22 21:47 UTC
Like that’s ever stopped anyone from trolling Microsoft-related threads
I thought Apple forbid developpers to give any details about the acceptance or not of application in the AppStore ? This is probably the reason why no name is mentioned. Then, is this article still credible ? Any feedback ? 🙂
I think Apple changed that policy due to developer irritation.
http://www.osnews.com/story/20347/
Because “The beatings will continue until morale improves” didn’t seem to be working. You’ve got to admire management which takes such an empirical and pragmatic approach. 😉
lol. Indeed. Unfortunately the removal of the nda is just a small carrot compared to the baseball bat apple keeps waving about.
Erica Sadun is a very well known developer in some iPhone/iPod Touch circles and already has one or two books explaining in details how to hack your iPod Touch/iPhone to its fullest extent in her resume (I’ve got one and learned a few tricks about my iPod Touch that I really haven’t seen anywhere else) so I’m inclined to believe that this is true and that the reason that the developer’s name is not mentioned at all must be due to Apple’s draconian rules.
Ars really seem to be the kind of website that attracts people truly knowledgeable about their area of expertise to expedite its articles…
Edited 2008-11-23 14:05 UTC
Apple can’t stop a developer from telling the public why they were not approved for the App Store or why their app was pulled from the App Store. From the emailed responses I got from several third party developers it’s frustrating to them why some of their apps are either blocked or removed. Nullriver’s NetShare app is one such good example whereby it seems only AT&T is against their customers tethering on the iPhone. Rogers and Fido here in Canada allow tethering on their smartphone data plans, so does several other international carriers that sell the iPhone 3G. Though Apple seems to continually listen to AT&T input instead of letting the consumer make up their mind on which app they would like to download.
Apple’s red tape or otherwise circus approval process for the App Store is one of the reasons why people will continue to jailbreak thus hurting Apple’s financial profits. After all apps such as Snapture, Cycorder, iPhone Video Recorder, iPhone Modem, etc have been trying to get into the App Store but are denied access. Why?
This tight control of the app. Will only turn off developers. As all the time and effort to make an app only to have a source say that it does or doesn’t go will turn developers off when more advanced phones with more open application development comes out.
I check to make sure it doesn’t effect the iPhone stability, or is bandwidth crazy, or sends malware makes since, however apps that compete with or enhance apples offering or doesn’t follow apples normally allowed good ideas or offers other crazy ideas that can actually make the phone very useful is crossing the line.