By now, you’re probably aware of questionable practices involved in Apple’s iPhone application approval process. Apparently, there are quite a few apps that were rejected by Jobs & Co, hence a dedicated website was created to share the pain and, I guess, help in lobbying for more open procedure.
The site is called “Apple Rejected Me” (ARM) and it’s main problem is that anyone can add his or her two cents anonymously. I presume that’s required since not many developers want a beef with Steve. On the other, the same fact makes ARM not that reliable source of information, to say the least.
Here are few examples from the site:
- “I made a time machine app, but apparently Flux_Capacitor is a private API. ARM”
- “I made an app that caused AT&T to drop a call randomly based on a 50/50 chance. Because of duplicate functionality, ARM.”
- “I tried to ‘Think Different’ but ARM.”
As Mashable has put it correctly – the sheer fact that “Apple Rejected Me” website exists shows there’s a room for improvements in Apple’s app approval policy… Any thoughts?