App Store

Apple extends iPhone NDA to rejection letters

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 9, 2016

Apple is going nuts on these NDA! After receiving a lot of bad publicity for its rejection policy of application in the App Store (see MailWrangler and Podcaster), Apple apparently extended today its Non Disclosure Agreements to rejection letters. Meaning that when you get rejected from the App Store, you can't even talk about it!

Aparently, Apple has now started labeling their rejection letters with Non-Disclosure Agreements statements:

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE

Sounds crazy? Sounds like Apple's usual way of doing business to me....

Another app gets rejected from the App Store

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 9, 2016

Apple did it again. Once again they rejected a usefull application from the App Store because it "duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion".

Last week, it was Podcaster that was rejected and now it is MailWrangler, a Gmail account email manager, that is not approved by Apple's shady acceptance process...

The developer of MailWrangler wrote a post on his blog about this and he cynically jokes that he should have created a flashlight application as Apple doesn't seem to have any problem with those types of apps (see the 20 different flashlight apps in the App Store).

Jailbreaking your iPhone has become more and more relevant since the App Store opened. Yes you can download thousands of applications from the App Store. No you can't have the most useful application from the App Store. I really hate how Apple does business.

An iPhone App Development Story

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated February 14, 2018

If you're a developper and are curious to see what the process is to have your application in the App Store, you may want to have a look at Mike Ash's story. From signing up with the iPhone Dev Center to getting his NetAwake [iTunes link] app approved, Mike goes through the 22 steps of the process.

[via TUAW]

App Store is live. This is how to access it

Sébastien Page ∙ July 10, 2008

The new iTunes 7.7 is now up and running. This new version of iTunes will work directly with the iPhone firmware 2.0 when available.

I just downloaded and installed the new version of iTunes and it took me a while to figure out how to access the App Store as it is not fully shown yet.

To access the App Store, simply search for "AOL" and it will show you 3 apps available. Click on any of them to have the full description. Now click on the "App Store" tab at the top of the page and it will take you to the App Store home page.