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iPhone devs share info to avoid App Store rejection
Apple is notorious for its seemingly arbitrary review policies for iPhone applications, and stories of apps being rejected for unexpected reasons abound. Developers have trouble navigating the ambiguous minefield of App Store policies -- what's allowed or not allowed in a "lite" version, for example -- and there's nowhere to turn to for advice on successfully complying with the rules and getting your app ready for sale. That's why developers are starting to help each other. There's now a Tumblr-hosted blog that posts app rejection letters from Apple, so the dev community can get a better sense of how these rules are being enforced.
The published feedback on the Application Submission Feedback blog is supposed to act as a necessary replacement for the rules that Apple has either left unclear or failed to state altogether. So far, it deals with tricky problems like 17+ ratings, lite apps and images of iPhones. As the site collects more data from people who have been rejected, it could become essential reading, and a kind of missing manual for the stuff Apple won't say outright.
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Subscribe to commentsAshishJul 29th 2009 3:35PM
Its amazing and sickening or sickeningly amazing or amazingly sickening that Apple is able to be such a pain with its policies and get away with it, while others that try, almost always fail.
216Jul 29th 2009 3:47PM
yup. Its the "i" effect. I bet if MS did anything like this they'd be at the Supreme Court, or at the EU trying to defend themselves, versus battling in the blogosphere
AshishJul 30th 2009 11:37AM
True...Apple reminds me of the story "emperor's new clothes" very often. Nobody is willing to talk against them in fear of being branded uncool.
The_DocJul 30th 2009 3:18PM
1st rule to getting your app approved by apple: don't be google
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/07/28/apple-pulls-google-voice-apps-from-the-app-store/