Why Apple may be removing desktop/dashboard/widget apps from the App Store
Since the iPad launch on April 3, TiPb’s been getting tips about desktop/dashboard/widget-style apps being removed first from the iPad App Store, then from the iPhone App Store as well. There are a number of examples, some well known by now, some relatively unknown. The commonality between all of them is that they’ve tried to [...]
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App Store search spam — can we get a rejection for that?
Go to the iTunes App Store, search for an app you want, and get your results flooded with spam-apps. Its a growing problem as unscrupulous developers keep finding new and annoying ways to try and game Apple’s approval process and scam users.
Marco.org highlights some of the worst offenders, but more importantly offers legitimate developers [...]
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Another developer returns to iPhone post-iPad
Frasier Speirs, one of several well-publicized developers to leave the iPhone over objections to Apple’s App Store policies and controversy surrounding app rejections, has decided to return, post iPad, and his reasons are intriguing:
I suspect that the days of everyone buying a MacBook to get online are soon to be over. I’ve already [...]
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UPDATED: Pulitzer Prize winning satirist can’t get into App Store
UPDATE: According to the WSJ, Apple has contacted Fiore:
Apple called the cartoonist Thursday and suggested that he resubmit the app, Mr. Fiore said in an interview. “I feel kind of guilty,” he said. “I’m getting preferential treatment because I got the Pulitzer.”
Preferential perhaps but not uncommon. Several controversial app rejections have been reconsidered [...]
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Regarding Apple’s use of private API in iBooks
Marco Arment raised a flag on the iPad App Store field today and called foul over Apple using private APIs in their first-party iBooks app.
Private APIs are meant to be exclusive to Apple’s OS and built-in apps (like Safari, Mail, iPod, etc.) because they’re experimental, transitional, or otherwise not something that developers should count on [...]
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