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I think Turtledoveland is a fun app. Is it possible to sell a screensaver through the Mac App Store?

• pavlov 16y ago
  Nope -- apps have to be self-contained .app bundles, and it's not permitted to write anything into shared operating system folders (which would be necessary to install a screensaver). Apple is strictly enforcing that rule, too. My app was at first rejected for violating it. The specific reason given was: The application is creating files or writing to </Library/Preferences/com.apple.mediaio.DeviceSettings.plist> and <~/Library/Images> It turns out that my app had nothing to do with this -- the responsible party was the IKPictureTaker class in ImageKit, which I was using to provide the "take a photo" functionality. To Apple's credit, they made it very easy to email a real person about the rejection. When I explained that ImageKit is responsible, the rejection was rescinded within a day.