Apple snuffs iPhone app for too much Appleness

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Ridiculous but well known

Yes, this is ridiculous. However, it is a rather well-known bit of ridiculousness that they should have steered clear of. Why they persisted quite so many times I can't imagine.

It always reminds me of the bit from the Life of Brian where the man is stoned for saying "Jehovah". Or, continuing the religious theme, maybe Apple consider it Idolotry for a mere mortal to make a graven image of their precious goods.

Re: Rules

It's easy enough to get icons designed, but as I understand it

the airfoil app is downloading the icons from the remote mac (which is running airfoil desktop)

and that icon, which is downloaded onto the iphone, is provided by a system API call!

The developers aren't shipping any copies of the icons at all in the iphone version.

How asking a computer for an icon representing itself and then sending that icon to other machines, to use as a network resource icon, is against the rules is beyond me...

to be clear about the image sources

@"h 6":

They are not images 'bundled' with the iPhone application, they are transmitted by the Mac OS X application to any remote speaker, be that the Speaker application (running on Windows, Mac, or Linux) on a desktop or on iPod touch and iPhone.

But they're not bundled with the Mac OS X application either. It gets them from a documented OS X library/Framework call.

(And, as to 'designing your own icons' - Apple's review process has rejected artwork that even *looks* like something that they deem theirs. Broken! I'll be reverting to version 1.0.0, as I don't encounter the bug they were fixing.)

Richard

I must say it's a shame for this bad press on the developer-to-Apple relationship saga, as Rogue Amoeba have knocked up a series of really well pollished products which come across as complementing the Apple product set smoothly.

I've paid for a couple, for filling a gap so well (say Spotify to Airport Express) on the music streaming market, that I can only see that Apple are trying to implement their own equivalent solutions.

When the iPhone can stream its own content to another wifi target (Direct) then we'll be sorted. A shame Rogue Amoemba can't be given some cash along the way!

@ Bootnote

this blog post on the mactracker site - http://mactracker.blogspot.com/2009/04/mactracker-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch.html - suggests that it is the case as well with them

Tombo

Isn't one of the big reasons M$ won out is they catered to the developer community? It's a shame, I think Apple is a great innovator in an industry sorely lacking at the time. Looks like they are trying to shoot themselves in the foot.

Interesting

It's actually in iTunes Store now, dated 13/11...

lost the plot

Apple: here are some images that you can use to enhance "appleness" of your app.

Developer: great. we'll use them.

Apple: sorry, you used the images WE PROVIDED in an app, in ways that WE SUGGESTED. So we're not going to approve the app.

Developer: WTF??

Apple really has completely lost the plot when it comes to the iPhone / iPodTouch. Completely. They have even managed to make me, an Apple fan since 1984, completely disgusted with the whole company. All because of their completely and utter disregard for me, their customer.

Reverting

@James R Grinter :

>I'll be reverting to version 1.0.0

Unfortunately there's no way to revert to an older version of an iPhone app.

And unlike the original story here, this is something to complain about: if an update introduces a bug, then you're screwed until the developer fixes it and the fix is approved by Apple (say 3 weeks). In contrast on any other platform you could just revert to the previous version immediately.

Nucking

Futs... what else is there to say?

@raving angry loony

"Apple really has completely lost the plot when it comes to the iPhone / iPodTouch. Completely. They have even managed to make me, an Apple fan since 1984, completely disgusted with the whole company. All because of their completely and utter disregard for me, their customer."

But as a true Apple fan you are still a costumer right?

RSS Player 2

A bit of Deja Vu

"We have received an email from the app review department at Apple. They have rejected the app due to an image of the iPhone that appeared on the Default splash screen. As you know, RSS Player's load screen features about 30 to 40 small images of podcasts covers and Apple didn't like 'The iPhone Spotlight' podcast image. We modified the image immediately and resubmitted the app. Now the ball is in Apples court again. The lesson to take away for all devs is don't put a picture of the iPhone anywhere in your app. "

http://rssplayer.blogspot.com/2009/11/rss-player-20-app-store-status.html

Difference between UI kit and API images

If Apple rejected the app because of images it's own software (Mac OS X) served up - i.e. the developers didn't actually bundle the images or deep link to them, what is the difference between that and using the UI kit to display Apple images like buttons, sliders, etc? I would consider the UI kit images Apple images.