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My app was rejected once for violating the HIG. I really missed out on a PR opportunity to write up a big story about how Apple won't accept apps from gay peop
by nika 16y ago
My app was rejected once for violating the HIG. I really missed out on a PR opportunity to write up a big story about how Apple won't accept apps from gay people!
Just because Apple rejects one app does not mean it is a new policy decision. I think these articles, which are, at their core, based on speculation, are frankly dishonest.
Apple does not give reasons for rejections to anyone other than the submitter of the app. Over the last two years we've had dozens of these articles about apples "draconian" policies, often about apps that were rejected for other reasons. Of course the original article is spread around by anti-apple zealots, but when it later comes out that Apple has no such policy, or the app appears in the store after fixing the bug.... the retractions? there are none!
So called "journalists" feel that they can just speculate on a reason and use it to write a sensational story. Linking to them and giving them the attention they seek is gives them the incentive to continue doing this, rather than go out and get good tech stories. This is why tech "journalism" is so often so lowbrow.
On one hand it is a testemant to the integrity of apple and the lack of integrity of the "journalists" who write these hit pieces that Apple doesn't respond. But now we have a generation of android zealots who think that Apple really is "draconian". I had one complete non-techie tell me that I shouldn't write apps for iOS because Apple is draconian. Of course, my experience actually making apps in the app store does not dissuade her perception of what she's heard from her friends and in articles like this.
Apple's policy is laudable, they figure eventually the truth will get out. I hope they are right, but I fear they are wrong. There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance.
- bad_user 16y agoShould fans of Apple start a campaign of hatred and dishonesty against android like they have against us? No need; Gruber is already on the job.
- nika 16y agoI've edited my post to remove that line because I think it was an expression of emotion and over the top. As for Gruber, I really don't like him at all. He kinda represents a lot of the qualities I'm objecting to, as you point out.
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- dhimes 16y agoThere are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance. You should have quit while you were ahead. The antenna fails, but the problem is fixed with a case. Furthermore , here's something else that I never saw anyone mention: The receiver has a terrible echo in some locations. Possibly because there is a rock cliff behind my house (I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, so the rocks are, shall we say, moist). I imagine that has something to do with the origin of the echo, but it's awfully close (the round-trip time for the radio signal would be imperceptible, so something else must be going on; if it was a tower problem I would think others would have mentioned it). I can fix the echo, sometimes by moving and other times by simply turning the phone. I have an iphone 4. The others in my family have had or currently have iphones 1, 2, and 3. The iphones area all lousy as phones (my circa 2006 motorola Razr was a much better phone). The iphone rocks in many ways, but as a phone, no.
- nika 16y agoThe reason there is no problem with the iphone 4 antenna is not that it is impossible to obscure the signal or cause signal loss, but because the new design pulls in signals better-- over all-- than the previous design. The issues you can cause it to have exist on other phones as well. It is a better design than previous versions, yet people seem to think there is a defect that makes it worse. I don't doubt there may be better phones out there, and as you note the results will vary by location, and I'd add, carrier.
- dhimes 16y agoThe antenna apparently has more gain, but the design flaw was that its conducting parts were on the outside of the case. That's just asking for trouble in a hand-held device. But they are apparently on top of it. As soon as the flurry of complaints came in, they posted a job opening for an antenna engineer!