Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store

donberryman writes "Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. The developer just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge." The developer complied with apparent good humor. Here is their blog post, which includes the text of the iPhone store's not-quite-rejection.

Comments

Re:We're all mind readers

[Richard_at_work]

Can you mention Tesco on your in-store product advertising, including the labeling, when stocking it in Walmart? Why is this any different?

And don't mention the war!

[andrut]

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right. [returns to the Germans] So! It's all forgotten now, and let's hear no more about it. So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads.

Yeah, he should have left that to Apple

[Mathinker]

A tip to you. You are totally correct, and are posting in a thread which does actually reflect poorly on Apple. And they managed to do it without any help from Tim C.

Re:Freetard alert!

[element-o.p.]

Interpretation: "I have nothing useful to say, and just want to call people names. News at 11!"

Re:We're all mind readers

[mypalmike]

> Steve Jobs deserves to be kicked in the DICK for this, hard.

Right, because obviously Steve Jobs personally reviewed this app, as he does all submitted apps. Indeed, everything Apple does, good or bad, is because Steve personally did it. He personally tests every iPod that gets sold, codes up bugs in Safari, and runs the cnc machine that bores out unibody Aluminum MacBook Pros.