Comments on: iPhone development woes/concerns http://www.niyogi.org/surojit/2009/11/04/iphone-development-woesconcerns/ Public ramblings (an anti-diary) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:48:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The Soapbox » Blog Archive » Android > iPhone http://www.niyogi.org/surojit/2009/11/04/iphone-development-woesconcerns/comment-page-1/#comment-6589 The Soapbox » Blog Archive » Android > iPhone Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://www.niyogi.org/surojit/?p=98#comment-6589 [...] The iPhone app store has over 100,000 apps and over 200 more are approved every day.  That’s a lot of apps.  What’s amazing is how many are in the app store in spite of Apple’s nothing-short-of-ridiculous and erratic app review and approval methodology. Take for instance today’s story on Techcrunch describing Apple’s approval of the Mein Kampf app with the Nazi Swastika as the app icon.  I had been trying to get an app discovery app called Apps-a-lot approved by Apple for weeks only to find it rejected on grounds that the iTunes Store not be crawled.  Except, AppSniper and BargainBin continue to stay available after mention by Apple app review staffers that they would be “dealt with” for employing similar practices.  As a developer, this is nothing less than disconcerting and I write more about this here. [...] [...] The iPhone app store has over 100,000 apps and over 200 more are approved every day.  That’s a lot of apps.  What’s amazing is how many are in the app store in spite of Apple’s nothing-short-of-ridiculous and erratic app review and approval methodology. Take for instance today’s story on Techcrunch describing Apple’s approval of the Mein Kampf app with the Nazi Swastika as the app icon.  I had been trying to get an app discovery app called Apps-a-lot approved by Apple for weeks only to find it rejected on grounds that the iTunes Store not be crawled.  Except, AppSniper and BargainBin continue to stay available after mention by Apple app review staffers that they would be “dealt with” for employing similar practices.  As a developer, this is nothing less than disconcerting and I write more about this here. [...]

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