How Macworld Got Their iPhone App Approved or How Having a Big Voice Helps
Umpteenth verse, same as the first — Macworld turned their iPhone ebook into and app and submitted it to the iTunes App Store. It was rejected. Several times. Finally editor Jason Snell expressed his frustration on Twitter and several high profile blogs picked it up. Apple called him immediately to try and make it right.
Good for Macworld. Bad for all the developers who lack the same megaphone by virtue of their job and connections.
Granted, with 100,000+ apps, the non-sensical and erroneous rejections remain a tiny percentage, but even a tiny percentage of 100,000+ represents many developers’ time, effort, and money. It’s frustrating for them and embarrassing for Apple.
Tim Cook and Phil Schiller claim they’re making improvements, and no doubt they are. From a pure perception point of view, however, this is one issue that needs fixing sooner rather than later.
November 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
First!! Now bring on the hate hate hate!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
First now bring da hate
November 6th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Hate hate hate
November 6th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Woooohooooooooo
November 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
You wanted the hate… you got it. Say it with me, people – this is why the App Store sucks. Arbitrary rejection of applications, whether or not consumers want them. Why does Apple insist on getting between developers and their customers?
November 7th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Trillian has gone 3 months now waiting for a approval or rejection now. It’s pretty pathetic really.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Agreed with Marc… Rediculous that trillian is still in the hopper!
November 7th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I just posted a link to this article on CS’s blog-page about what Jason Snell did here.. maybe if Jason complains on twitter about CS, it’ll get some love too? I agree with all above mentioned.