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"If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved." This reason is a bit vague. Shouldn

by bhaumik 12y ago

"If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved." This reason is a bit vague. Shouldn't "Yo" (and other clones) be rejected under this criteria? If not, what's the boundary then?

sean-duffy 12y ago
I imagine this guideline is probably just used as a barrier to apps with no real functionality, to stop people submitting "Hello World" apps and the like.
gergles 12y ago
Yo was rejected. The other (bigger?) problem with the approval process having guidelines like this is that you can just play CSR roulette and keep submitting it until you find somebody that approves it, which is, I suspect, what the Yo people did in the mysteriously-light-on-detail "fought it", given that there's no substantive way to fight App Store rejections. Sure, you have to increment the version number, but you don't have to make any real substantive change. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inside-story-of-yo-there-isnt-actually-1-million-in-the-bank-2014-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inside-story-of-yo-there-...
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  >> "there's no substantive way to fight App Store rejections" You can appeal rejections and argue your case over a phone call. Happened to me recently and they reversed the decision of the reviewer (who misunderstood part of the apps functionality in relation to an app approval rule).
  - andrewljohnson 12y ago
    +1, me too, couple of times.
  - megablast 12y ago
    You can also get in touch with someone at Apple, if you have any mates or any people from Apple work in your company.
    - prawn 12y ago
      You can contact your local developer relations person at Apple. We had a crucially timed update get canned because the reviewer missed the notes we included. We contacted dev relations and it was sorted out very quickly.

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"If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved." This reason is a bit vague. Shouldn

by bhaumik 12y ago

sean-duffy 12y ago
I imagine this guideline is probably just used as a barrier to apps with no real functionality, to stop people submitting "Hello World" apps and the like.
gergles 12y ago
Yo was rejected. The other (bigger?) problem with the approval process having guidelines like this is that you can just play CSR roulette and keep submitting it until you find somebody that approves it, which is, I suspect, what the Yo people did in the mysteriously-light-on-detail "fought it", given that there's no substantive way to fight App Store rejections. Sure, you have to increment the version number, but you don't have to make any real substantive change. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inside-story-of-yo-there-isnt-actually-1-million-in-the-bank-2014-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inside-story-of-yo-there-...
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  >> "there's no substantive way to fight App Store rejections" You can appeal rejections and argue your case over a phone call. Happened to me recently and they reversed the decision of the reviewer (who misunderstood part of the apps functionality in relation to an app approval rule).
  - andrewljohnson 12y ago
    +1, me too, couple of times.
  - megablast 12y ago
    You can also get in touch with someone at Apple, if you have any mates or any people from Apple work in your company.
    - prawn 12y ago
      You can contact your local developer relations person at Apple. We had a crucially timed update get canned because the reviewer missed the notes we included. We contacted dev relations and it was sorted out very quickly.