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How To Get Rejected From the App Store

Posted by timothy on from the feature-the-steve-in-green-turtleneck dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:using vendor API's !welcome? by ianezz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Didn't Micro$oft have API's that they used and didn't want anyone else to use? Didn't they get lambasted for that?

    Apple is not (yet?) a monopoly.

  2. Re:Go buy an Android if you want freedom by NiceGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Troll? Really? So making a factual statement gets downmodded but trashing Apple is a guaranteed +1 Insightful...got it.

  3. Re:Go buy an Android if you want freedom by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not?

    I don't need to force a change on anybody. I am 100% fine with Apple being Capricious.

  4. Re:using vendor API's !welcome? by obarthelemy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe true at the beginning. But guess what happened for the next version of the OS, whan OS engineers are to choose which unofficial APIs to keep, and which to do away ? Hint: "DOS isn't finished until 123 won't run".

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  5. Re:Innovate too well, Apple kills it. by RocketRabbit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you seriously suggesting that Apple stole cut and paste? Apple, who has had cut and paste for over a quarter century?

    They didn't have it in the iphone, now they do. As long as we are ripping on phones that are copycats, how about all the phones that are all screen, just like the iphone? How about all the phones that auto-rotate, just like the iphone?

    I could go on all day but it's pointless. The real point that needs considering is that on Android or the Palm Pre, things are sluggish, shitty, and ugly, and on the iphone they are slick, quick, and nifty.

    People notice this stuff.