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Except that in the vast majority of cases, not following them really hurts your chances of getting into the App Store. Try to find a few other apps on the App

• sdkmvx 15y ago
  This may be the one-in-a-million chance to disregard that guideline. A big rule in interface design is to do what users expect. In Vi/Vim, this means quitting on :q. Assuming that this is non-standard enough that Apple would go find somebody who knows Vim to handle the review, that person would (and obviously did) know this.
• Splines 15y ago
  Waze has a "Switch Off" command, although that seems to make sense since it's a way to stop running GPS. Maybe they got a pass since ":q" is a basic Vim command. People are going to type it - what should they do instead? Nothing?
• YooLi 15y ago
  How many apps need an exit button? Just because you look around the App Store and don't see a bunch of apps with exit buttons doesn't mean it's because they aren't allowed. It never even crossed my mind to put an exit button in my apps because it's not a use case for my apps. I'm sure it's the same with a majority of the other apps.
• lazerwalker 15y ago
  I can see two likely scenarios why this got passed: 1. The reviewer has never used vim. As someone unfamiliar with vim, it never occurred to them to type :q, and thus they never saw that behavior. 2. The reviewer has used vim before, and knows how it works. With that familiarity, the reviewer understood that :q quitting the app was the behavior that users would expect.