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Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices
isBandGeek() writes "After a few reasonable App Store bans, such as the ones on I Am Rich and NetShare, developers started complaining about excessive restrictions on applications like Podcaster and MailWrangler, supposedly because they provided 'duplicate functionality.' In response, Apple rubbed salt in their wounds by slapping non-disclosure agreements on application rejection notices. Now developers are not even allowed to tell their fanbase that Apple decided to withhold approval for an application. Is Apple confident that Google's open platform Android won't be much of a threat?"
Gee, this makes me want to rush out and develop for that platform. Right after I finish strapping the wings on to this pig...
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Add to the developer sites a line like:
The following applications have not been removed from the AppStore: [item] [item] [item] .... ...and just delete when required.
-- Soruk
Sir, I am afraid you need re-education. Please step into the reality distortion field.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
I hear that the Apple NDAs are sent in glossy white envelopes to the developers, with the Apple logo on the outside and a grouping of pointless logic on the inside. But at least it looks good, so let's blame it on Microsoft anyways.
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
It's all about ©The Experience!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Apple? Abusing their power to keep people from talking about their product in any way that is not authorized by the Apple marketing department? Why, I can't tell you how long it's been since I've heard a similar story about them doing this sort of thing!
No, I don't mean it's been a long time. I mean I literally can't tell you. I'm not legally allowed to.
Sorry.
(Joking . . . mostly.)
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
The obvious next step would be to place both you and your product on Double Secret Probation ... the terms of which are only available to developers with Super-Level Clearance. You don't have Super-Level Clearance, do you? Hmmm, very well, just sign here ... and here ... and here ... thank you.
who is that "rest of us" you mention?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I'm a PC
And I'm a Mac
I run almost all business software and games
AND I'LL SUE YOUR ASS IF YOU TELL ANYONE!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Interviewer: So it says here you've been developing for the iPhone for 2 years
Developer: Yup that's right
I: So what applications have you written
D: I've written applications around complex gene folding, stock prediction and a massively multi-player online game
I: Great, can I get them from the App Store
D: I can't say
I: Why not?
D: I can't say
I: Why?
D: There is an NDA covering whether I submitted them and whether they rejected them
I: Can you show me the code?
D: Err no
I: Why?
D: Because I'm not allowed to share things with other developers
I: Why?
D: That's in the NDA too
I: So in summary you say you've written some amazing applications but can't prove it and they aren't on the app store
D: Correct
I: So why should I believe you
D: Would anyone who hadn't done iPhone development have bothered to read the NDA?
I: Good point, you're hired.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
But android doesn't have the Apple logo, what is its excuse for not being MS compatible?
That it don't have the MS logo.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
German cars can be more reliable than Asian cars, they're just "different" as in you MUST keep up on maintenance. Asian cars are appliances. You drive them until something big breaks and you go cut a new one out of its shrink wrapping.
Well, sheesh, ANY pile of crap will go forever if you "keep up on maintenance" (even, say, a Fiat). Not that German cars are piles of crap, but are you seriously arguing it's a design "feature" that you have to baby them otherwise they won't last? I highly doubt there's some German engineer sitting around thinking, "Ya, ve could design da engine to nicht burn ze oil, but das customzers like to tinker wit de shpringenverk."
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
One of the more pervasive memes I've seen here regarding Apple is (and I paraphrase):
They're shafting me in the ass right now, but I'm hoping they'll stop soon.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Think Different, Think of ANYTHING but an Apple product...
--E--
...they'll let that fucking cat and his two little friends into your house and wreck everything...