Has anyone seen this one before?<p>"We cannot post this iPhone application to the App Store at this time because it encourages a physical activity that could result in a customer damaging their iPhone."<p>That's what they told me for my beloved Falling Man app <a href="http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/iphone-applications/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/iphone-applications/</a> :-(<p>I guess it's one of the more reasonable rejecting reasons, eh? I'm not worried, it was my first project, just playing with the accelerometer.
I know it's in the rules not to post comments moaning, but do we really need a live feed of every single app store rejection on here? Is it useful or interesting? It's linkbait + spam IMHO.<p>If you don't want the risk of developing for a closed platform, don't do it! But please please please stop whining about it.
I see the pitfals of a non-scalable business model.<p>Apple has a few parts of their business that do not scale well: retail stores and app vetting process. In either case the per-employee marginal revenue is small in these sectors and so the cost has to be managed.<p>Same is not true for scalable businesses such Mac OS X development where per-employee marginal revenue is very high and you can actualy afford to hire the brightestand and train them well.
Couldn't Apple just leverage facebook's 150+ porn patrol employees?<p>All kidding aside - how could you systematically enforce guidelines on applications when the universe of applications is wide open? In other words, there's no baseline so how could you create test case?<p>Wouldn't it make more sense to have a group of iphone users (i.e. folks that like to play with anything on the iphone) and have them vote on the app? (apple could reward these users with the app for free or some other random goodies - itouch, ipods, etc...)
You guys are funny.<p>One post talks about not wanting Apple Rejects on HackerNews, and another talks about how Apple is censoring applications.<p>First Apple, then HackerNews, next we'll be claiming that our own mother's try to influence us! I won't believe it.