[OT] A tale of App Store rejection

[chris livermore]

Go Andre!

On 21/01/2013, at 2:55 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Hey Folks,
> 
> Wow huge thread! Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I can see here
> that we tend to fall into two camps. Those that think that Apple can do
> whatever they choose with their platform and those that feel that the tight
> control by Apple is a bad thing.
> 
> There is a larger issue here which is who owns the device you have in your
> pocket. iOS devices are full blown computers and yet, you can't install any
> app you want. You need to flow thru the walled garden, face the sphynx,
> answer the feature riddles ("hey my traffic app now farts when the transit
> sucks, will you allow me thru now?") before you can distribute app. I
> believe that walled gardens like that are not the answer. I would rather
> see a preferred market app such as the Mac App Store and yet allow users to
> side load apps like we can do on Android but hey, I am not Apple CEO so my
> opinion amounts to nothing.
> 
> In the case of "Eponte", I made a decision. I was/am very Angry at the fact
> that a reviewer in the U.S. that never came to Rio or faced the dreaded
> traffic jams on that bridge can decide if my app is useful or not. The
> whole mentality of "we know better what our users want" is bad. I refuse to
> add more features to my Eponte app because it is pretty and elegant and
> solves the problem that it was meant to solve. I haven't made this app as a
> business or wanted to profit from it. I made it to solve my problem. If
> Apple thinks that iOS users don't need the app, then, it is good for me, I
> don't use an iPhone but I will tell you my plan now.
> 
> LiveCode is not my only development environment and Eponte is an easy app.
> I will port it to Blackberry, Nokia Symbian and Windows Phone. I will port
> it to every mobile OS under the sun except iOS and then all the other users
> will have a quick and easy way to check the bridge and iphone users can go
> surf on their mobile safari and try to open some webpage with traffic info
> that will not load due to poor coverage.
> 
> :-D
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> In talking about the android neighbors of course.
>> 
>> Bob Sneidar
>> IT Manager
>> Calvary Chapel CM
>> Sent from iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 19, 2013, at 18:08, Warren Samples <warren at warrensweb.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 01/19/2013 07:35 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
>>>> They are willing to put up your app absolutely freely, if you like, so
>> long as you don't charge for it. That's pretty generous. What they actually
>> owe anyone in terms of what they allow is precisely jack diddly squat. It's
>> their basketball hoop, their garage, and their basketball. Don't like the
>> rules? Go to the next door neighbor's garage and play with him.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Actually, Bob, they are not "willing"; they demand this. It was their
>> decision that they be the sole "legitimate" distributor of iOS apps and
>> there is *no* "next door neighbor's garage" for iDevice users and by
>> extension anyone who has an idea to develop for the iOS platform. My
>> opinion is that given Apple's demand for exclusive distribution rights,
>> that they *ought* to be less restrictive regarding "acceptible utility".
>> They are hurting users and developers alike.
>>> 
>>> Warren
>>> 
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