Moreover, politics have been a thorny issue for the App Store since its debut in the summer of 2008, which wasn’t exactly a time of great national unity, you’ll recall. Steve Jobs famously told Gawker tech writer Ryan Tate that the iPad offers “freedom from porn” through its censorship, but last year’s crackdown on bikini-related material shows how serious Apple is about keeping everything PG. If All Else Fails, There’s Always Android, or HTML5Ĭompare that to Apple’s high profile rejections based on content it deems inappropriate. “It’s kind of similar to when laws come down and then the courts interpret them over time, they deal with those edge cases and stuff.”ĥ. “It’s one of those things where there’s a little bit of mind-reading with Apple and it’s hard to really know if this is the deal,” Mr. So they can be forgiven for thinking their app didn’t fit the submission guideline’s definitions of selling “content, functionality, or services.” Unlike a traditional “publisher” that produces content, Readbility simply allows users to access others’ content, and the subscription model is an effort to cover their own costs, as well as remunerate actual publishers like, the New York Review of Books. Rich Ziade, the app’s creator, says the program’s rejection took the team by surprise, if only because they didn’t know that the company’s publishing rules, released under new general guidelines for the store, applied to them. “People started to go skydiving with their iPhones so they could get a high score.”Īpple’s new publishing model has only complicated matters, and led to a recent high profile rejection of the Instapaper-esque app, Readabilty.
“PC World named it the dumbest iPhone app of the year,” Mr. It was okay, at first, but it wasn’t long before it started violating a ban on apps that encourage users to damage their phones.
The app was called “Hangtime,” and it encouraged users to toss their phones and catch them, timing how long the phone stayed in the air.
Tarun Nimmagadda, co-founder and COO of the app development company MutualMobile recalled that the company’s very first app, which he developed personally, was rejected, but only after it was accepted and people started using it in a way that Apple deemed unsuitable. User interfaces also may not “mimc any iPod interface.” You can’t misspell the names of Apple products, to quote the guidelines, “(i.e., GPS for Iphone, iTunz).” “Apps that include games of Russian roulette will be rejected,” it warns, at the end of the “Violence” section, though “include” is an awfully loaded verb. The Submission Guidelines are actually a treasure trove of quirky little reasons your app may be rejected.
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