What apps do you have on your iPhone? Super Monkey Ball? A word game? Some calculators and flashlights? While the whole process of getting a new app on your iPhone seems devilishly simple—tap on the app store icon, confirm purchase, and wait for a minute—things aren’t always so simple and straightforward for the developers who are working hard to bring you these cool apps. A number of my developer friends have been writing in, eagerly but so far unofficially listing out the problems they have faced.
This article offers a detailed list of all the problems that have plagued the App Read More...
Adding to the long list of rejected applications on the App Store, here is yet another application from DiNardi that got rejected for duplicating the functionality of the built-in iPhone application mail. MailWrangler (the rejected application) was submitted on July 17th, and Apple responded on August 29th. That was a long and a patient wait, only to be rejected in the end.
What took Apple so long? This same pain of waiting applies to those who apply for developers’ license. Those who are lucky gets the license overnight, but for some it take months. Is Apple becoming very autocratic or was Read More...
Another controversy is brewing fast against Apple's nontransparent policy of reviewing applications. The most recent rejection of an application that has triggered the hottest objection against Apple is the rejection of Podcaster, an application that allows users to update their podcast subscription through Wi-Fi without syncing the iPhone to iTunes. A step ahead of Apple actually.
The functionality of Podcaster also includes the ability to to listen to podcasts without first downloading them to iTunes. Regarding the rejection Apple wrote:
Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
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