How To Get Rejected From the App Store

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister catalogs 12 sure-fire ways to get your app rejected from Apple's notoriously fickle App Store. From executing interpreted code, to using Apple's APIs without permission, to designing your UI, each transgression has been abstracted from real-life rejections — for the most part because Apple seems to be making up the rules as it goes along. 'It'd be nice for Apple to make conditions for rejection clear,' McAllister writes. 'Apple has been tinkering with the language of its iPhone SDK license agreement lately, but that hasn't done much to clarify the rules — unless you're Adobe. For everyone else, the App Store's requirements seem as vague and capricious as ever.'"

Comments

Apple is Evil

[mschaffer]

I just don't know why people aren't boycotting Apple.

Re:Go buy an Android if you want freedom

[flyneye]

Yes, but, this is a group exercise in admonishing poor business practices by a dishonest company duping suckers as though it were a cult.
When, if ever Sour Apple Macincult can be a stand up company offering value for dollars, I'm sure they will get the respect they have coming.
Till then, they can feel free to continue on their path and endure the public badmouthing and disrespect they have coming.

Re:this book can't be a complete set

[goose-incarnated]

What exactly were you expecting? They aren't democratic about this, and they have never pretended to be - whining about their policy now is foolish, you should have rather just developed for a different platform.

I suppose it's too much to ask if you learned your lesson - for all I know you're busy working on another iApp instead of just competing on an even playing field on a different mobile platform.