Daring Satire: Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer
Daring Fireball has posted a bitingly satirical look at Apple’s iPhone App Store review process which, like the best of comedy, is firmly rooted in both tragedy and truth. That Apple hasn’t posted clear guidelines for developers is frustrating enough. That they apparently haven’t imposed them on their own internal staff raises the flabbergast bar to dizzying new heights.
With 35,000+ apps and a billion downloads Apple is well on their way towards building that next great platform. Until they fix the app approval process, however, that building is a house of cards.
Enough of the choir preaching. Here’s Gruber bringing the painful funny:
MONDAY MAY 18: The dude who wrote that game with the iPhone icon seems very upset. Says that the iPhone image is used to explain that the user must tilt the device in order to play the game, and so how can he show this visually without using an image of an iPhone. And he has a list of other apps already in the Store which use similar graphics. I reply with the exact same message as last week, word for word. Spend the rest of the day playing Flight Control.
Read the entire Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer via Daring Fireball…
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I would say to draft up an icon of a phone that is your own creation and use that instead of infringing on something copyrighted. I find no fault on Apple’s behalf for rejecting it because of that.
I find it interesting in general that you cannot use a trademarked image of an Apple device to refer to the Apple device that is running the software in which the trademarked image appears.
Can someone explain to me why that is a violation of trademark?
BTW: This was funny, but a bit too ‘tries hard’.
http://tinyurl.com/nyqmby This is a pictorial representation of the story.
That flowchart is great! But shouldn’t the yes path for “contains sounds of flatulence” lead to an Accepted outcome??
Glad to hear we weren’t the only ones to have a version rejected because of an iPhone image demonstrating tilt. On a tip from a friend, we too resubmitted an identical zip and got approved! We love ya’ Apple!
Sweet Jesus tell me that the whole post was made up. If that in fact is a correct representation or a similiar approach of app aproval personnel… I’m just disgusted. True it’s only an app for a phone but good god that is just insane.