WOW this makes Apple look really bad if it’s true
Personally I see no reason for Apple to be quaking in its boots over Google’s Android platform, but apparently it is as according to Flash of Genius, the developers of a SAT test prep app called Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2, Apple has “asked” them to remove all references to Android in their app description.
That’s right, apparently you are no longer allowed to let people know your app placed in the Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge for fear someone about to download it will cancel their iPhone service, buy an Android phone, and then purchase the app there. Or maybe Apple’s hatred of “Flash” runs so deep they’re just looking to mess with a company with “Flash” in its name.
Here’s the full letter Sent to Flash of Genius
Dear Flash of Genius, LLC,
Thank you for submitting Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 to the App Store. During our review of your application, we found that your application contains inappropriate or irrelevant platform information in the Application Description and/or Release Notes sections.
Providing future platform compatibility plans or other general platform references are not relevant in the context of the iPhone App Store. While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!” from the Application Description [Emphasis added].
Please log into iTunes Connect to make appropriate changes to the Application Description now to avoid an interruption in the availability of Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 on the iPhone App Store.
Regards,
iPhone Developer Program
You know, with the Super Bowl just 2 days away, it might be time to take another look at Apple’s famous 1984 ad…
[via The Next Web]
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Last month I reviewed Background Check App for the iPhone, the app that lets you perform on-the-spot background checks on virtually anyone, anywhere. It being right before Christmas at the time, I mentioned that I planned to have a little fun by looking up all my family and friends at upcoming holiday parties and blowing their minds with the power of the iPhone.
Well, as it turns out, my family and friends are REALLY boring. Guess what I found when I looked them up? Their addresses, ages, and relatives, all of which I already knew. While I could see the benefit of an employer looking up a prospective employee, or a parent running a quick check on a new babysitter, I soon realized that the app would probably soon end up getting pushed to the last page of apps on my iPhone, and then ultimately end up deleted. However, that all changed yesterday when Read more
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