JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple

Does it even matter whether Apple is wrong, unreasonable or irrational? Just like I reserve the rights of admission to my house, Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store.<p>If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.

Speaking from personal experience, once it becomes clear you and the reviewers are at an impasse but you are still submitting, somebody higher up the app store review chain will give a call to the phone number listed on your developer account and you can have a more reasonable, human conversation.<p>Otherwise, he should just put up a sign in his club about no cover / free pizza for a member of the iOS team who's willing to put in a good word for xscreensaver. I mean, he _is_ in SF. Even I know several people on the iOS team, at least one of whom has gone there, and I don't even live/work in that area.

"I don't own and don't plan to own any Android devices, because frankly I think it sucks." --jwz<p>Oh, the deep irony.

Apple might be wrong, but jwz is a dick. Just read the comments on that link and see how abusive he is to the other commenters.

It is named ScreenSaver, when it clearly does not function as "screen saver" on iOS device. Apple is right.

Their approval process has been so random and stubborn lately. I've been struggling with a submission for 2 months now where they keep rejecting the app cause they want me to change the text on a button.

"The application which just shows pretty pictures, formerly known as XScreenSaver"<p>The goal to avoid user confusion and scams is a good goal. Even if there are a few millions XScreenSaver users (wow) on another platforms, there are orders of magnitude more potential new users who should not be mislead. How to avoid confusion is a good question, but accepting the old name doesn't appear to be a provably best solution.<p>Can't the name be different but the application appear in searches based on the reference to the name of XScreenSaver somewhere in the description?

<i>&#62; changing the name does not solve the problem that people searching for "xscreensaver" in the app store will not find it if it is released under something-that-is-not-its-name.</i><p>With the recent App Store search result changes, this may be of little help anyway. If you search for the name of my app, for instance, it comes up near the bottom of the results where nobody looks. I went from averaging multiple downloads per day to just two sales since the changes were put into effect.

This sounds like an argument that using the name Apple will confuse people because it is a famous fruit. What a stupid reason.

The way I see it: one less junk app off the App Store. Thumbs up, Apple!

Is it possible for jwz to be a bigger asshole? We should have a poll. Who's a bigger asshole?<p><pre><code> * Linus Torvalds * Daniel J. Bernstein * Theo de Raadt * Jamie Zawinski</code></pre>

Why would I need a screensaver for an iOS device?

I love the URL slug =)