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That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thin

by w4 11y ago

That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (and why most of my recent side project work has been on web apps). App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Add in the the real and psychological barriers app review imposes when making bug fixes or updates, and it makes going back to the web rather attractive. It'd be nice to see Apple make some changes to the process. (I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terribly interesting for side projects - though that's my problem, not Androids's.)

gabemart 11y ago
> I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terrible interesting for side projects Fragmentation and the frequency of device- or vendor-specific bugs and other issues take a lot of the fun out of Android dev for me.
threeseed 11y ago
Apple's position is actually very easy to understand. Don't do anything that is likely to cause significant harm to them. Examples of this include: (a) negative press publicity e.g. porn app, drone strike app, (b) stealing from or harming their customers and of course (c) this app where they will have to cover the cost of you putting heavy objects on something that it was never designed to do. If you want to damage your own phone go ahead. You can build a weighing app and deploy it to your phone. But expecting Apple to endorse (which is what the App Store actually is) stupid behaviour was never going to happen.
- roosterjm2k2 11y ago
  I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..
  - Tloewald 11y ago
    The negative publicity on Android for bad taste or stupid/dangerous apps (remember "Send me to heaven"? the app that measured how high you threw your phone?) is probably swamped by the bad publicity from malware and spyware. The thing about the App store is so little bad news comes out of it that all the hysteria is over minor stuff (e.g. Apple accidentally banning Civil War games).
- roosterjm2k2 11y ago
  I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..
- ankitaggarwal 11y ago
  Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?
WildUtah 11y ago
App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Unless you're Facebook which has recently been caught abusing silent notifications to start up in the background and continue running permanently by streaming music at zero-volume while draining battery. Apple responds decently when developers have big media presence notice their abusive process and rolls over passively when powerful players like Facebook have them over a barrel. It's a stormy ocean when you're independent. Best to be careful. increasingly disinterested in You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.'
- iampims 11y ago
  It was a bug, not intentional from FB: https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163 https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163
- cft 11y ago
  I do not understand why the parent gets downvoted so much. I think FB can do pretty much what they please. If Apple is concerned for any reason, Facebook can simply ask them: "Do you want the Facebook Apps in the App store or not?" I think the answer will be: Yes.
  - fpgeek 11y ago
    By that standard, Amazon should be able to do pretty much what they please too, but we know they can't (see: in-app Kindle store / link to web store, etc.).
- w4 11y ago
  > You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.' Uninterested may have been better, but disinterested works fine - see the usage notes (desktop only for some reason): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
  - WildUtah 11y ago

by w4 11y ago

gabemart 11y ago

> I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terrible interesting for side projects Fragmentation and the frequency of device- or vendor-specific bugs and other issues take a lot of the fun out of Android dev for me.

threeseed 11y ago

Apple's position is actually very easy to understand. Don't do anything that is likely to cause significant harm to them. Examples of this include: (a) negative press publicity e.g. porn app, drone strike app, (b) stealing from or harming their customers and of course (c) this app where they will have to cover the cost of you putting heavy objects on something that it was never designed to do. If you want to damage your own phone go ahead. You can build a weighing app and deploy it to your phone. But expecting Apple to endorse (which is what the App Store actually is) stupid behaviour was never going to happen.

roosterjm2k2 11y ago
I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..
- Tloewald 11y ago
  The negative publicity on Android for bad taste or stupid/dangerous apps (remember "Send me to heaven"? the app that measured how high you threw your phone?) is probably swamped by the bad publicity from malware and spyware. The thing about the App store is so little bad news comes out of it that all the hysteria is over minor stuff (e.g. Apple accidentally banning Civil War games).
roosterjm2k2 11y ago
I don't buy it. Where is the negative publicity on android? It doesn't exist... There are apps that many people find offensive on the play store... just like there are movies on amazon that some people would find offensive... same thing..
ankitaggarwal 11y ago
Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?

WildUtah 11y ago

App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Unless you're Facebook which has recently been caught abusing silent notifications to start up in the background and continue running permanently by streaming music at zero-volume while draining battery. Apple responds decently when developers have big media presence notice their abusive process and rolls over passively when powerful players like Facebook have them over a barrel. It's a stormy ocean when you're independent. Best to be careful. increasingly disinterested in You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.'

iampims 11y ago
It was a bug, not intentional from FB: https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163 https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163
cft 11y ago
I do not understand why the parent gets downvoted so much. I think FB can do pretty much what they please. If Apple is concerned for any reason, Facebook can simply ask them: "Do you want the Facebook Apps in the App store or not?" I think the answer will be: Yes.
- fpgeek 11y ago
  By that standard, Amazon should be able to do pretty much what they please too, but we know they can't (see: in-app Kindle store / link to web store, etc.).
w4 11y ago
> You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.' Uninterested may have been better, but disinterested works fine - see the usage notes (desktop only for some reason): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested
- WildUtah 11y ago