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[poooooof]

What's new? iPhone is just one disappointment after another. The iPhone team does not fully understand user, and certainly has no responsibility for their position in marketing a product. They think they are god, this situation will change soon just like Windows vs. Mac OS, in iPhone vs Windows Mobile.

I started using Macs in 1983, at one point in time I have six Macs on my desk. Today, I am clean and free from Macs... There's something wrong with the Apple Culture, Apple is till living with their heads stuck between their legs. Originality and Creativity is good, but it's not as important as productivity, iPhone therefore is not important for real world applications.

[OneBravePrune]

These all sound like legitimate bans to me. Appearances are everything, so why would you want to promote a phone that farts, shakes boobs, and swears? The rebuttals of these developers are as pitiful as the applications.

All of this excluding the Podcaster application; it is very well executed. Apple is smart to lock applications like that down when it comes to business sense.

[kholinar]

So which of these apps were going to turbo-charge my productivity?

Honestly, most of the things on this list are already in the app store, so rather than setting themselves as gods, the app store screening people seem to have adapted to people's demands.

[jared]

I had a similar experience. My company Code Monkeys at Work developed an application called Quick Shot for the iPhone. One of its defining features was going to let users click the volume button to snap a picture. When we submitted it to Apple it was rejected on the basis that using the volume button in this manner broke the Human Interface Guidelines and would be confusing to users. I agree that there should be a way to get pre-approval for an application or feature before spending the time and money to develop it. We had to remove the offending feature and resubmit. Our app is now for sale in the store. But it was quite an experience.

[dgmeansit]

I applaud Apple's decision not to allow sales of these totally useless apps! I have purchased a few apps that I find useful and it's nice not to have to wade through a lot of total garbage to find them!

[Mojoth3Monkey]

While some apps may be totally useless to you, they may be useful to others, even if only for entertainment purposes. This is censorship and intolerance. Grow up.

[Cking1]

You must be joking. It has nothing to do with keeping the iPhone "clean and not offensive"for a better appearance. Here is an idea, let the USER decide what is right for thier phone. If I want to see boobs and swear words, I have a right as a American to see and use them. IF you want your iPhone clean, then by all means go ahead. The IMAGE is based on the user. After you buy a product they tell you how to use it and force you to do it thier way because of "user exprience." That is BS. I don't have any experience beacuse I never got to choose in the first place. The app review process should include 18 Apps for 18 users. Its sad that many people give up thier simple rights. Apple locks the user in regardless if its a good idea or not. Absolutely STUPID. Never will own any CRAPPLE products. Google is changing the world, no joke and if Apple can't see the open source theory in the future, they will die an economic death.

[DebbieTT]

> "We spent a lot of time and money on this product,"

You simply should have read the agreement *YOU* signed, when you became a developer.

You didn't see the part about:
X-rated material?
Copyrighted material?
Racist attacks?
Political attacks?
Buggy apps?
Duplicating built-in apps?
Violating design standards?

If you didn't like what you signed... don't sign it.

[DebbieTT]

Cking1, on 08 August 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

If I want to see [censored] and swear words, I have a right as a American to see and use them.

False.
The GOVERNMENT can't stop you (but even they do).
Private companies *CAN* stop you from seeing obscene pictures on their products.

You need to re-read The Constitution a few more times.

[DebbieTT]

Mojoth3Monkey, on 23 April 2009 - 09:17 AM, said:

While some apps may be totally useless to you, they may be useful to others, even if only for entertainment purposes. This is censorship and intolerance. Grow up.

So you *DO* want to buy more and more apps that are just farting, vomiting, and useless, right?

Good plan.

[DebbieTT]

jared, on 23 February 2009 - 12:30 PM, said:

I agree that there should be a way to get pre-approval for an application or feature before spending the time and money to develop it.

There *IS a way. Just ask me. (Or anyone that can read the simple agreement that *YOU* signed when you became a developer.)

Can I use the home button to play sounds? No.
Can I use off button to make run apps? No.
Can I use the volume button to change screens? No.
Can I use the speaker to reboot the phone? No.
Can I use the camera to record sound? No.
Can I use the headphone jack to end my app? No.

The real question is: Why would you *WANT* to????

[AkintomideOlamilokun]

Apple and its problems?

[RandallFlaggn34g]

I for one do not welcome our new Appstore overlords...

This post has been edited by RandallFlaggn34g: 18 September 2011 - 10:50 AM

[RandallFlaggn34g]

I came *this* close to getting an Iphone, and instead elected to got with the Sprint Evo. It's a decision I smile about almost every day.

I intensely dislike Apple. Don't like their product. Don't like their users. Don't like their smug stores, the culture, or the company. I don't like any of it. As the most valuable company on Earth, Apple is now "The Man," and those of us chugging away on Microsoft & other competitors are the "Avant Garde" ones. ...Pretty weird, when you think about it.

[RandallFlaggn34g]

DebbieTT, on 04 August 2010 - 03:02 PM, said:

jared, on 23 February 2009 - 12:30 PM, said:

I agree that there should be a way to get pre-approval for an application or feature before spending the time and money to develop it.

Can I use the headphone jack to end my app? No.

The real question is: Why would you *WANT* to????

...because it's useful. I have an Evo, and when I yank the headphones, Pandora shuts off instead of immediately blaring out the phone speaker. Considering I'm usually unplugging the headphones because I'm done listening, or need to concentrate or hear something, it's actually an extremely nice feature...and one you poor Iphone zombies will never have, thanks to Apple.

[myHealthbox]

Now, difficult to comment on the various fart-boobies wiggle apps but we just got our app rejected and we are quite astonished, here is what it does:

- it provides a map with the pharmacies closest to your locations.... for anywhere in Europe
- yeah, you can pan-zoom etc.. if you want to find out the pharmacies in a remote Helsinki suburb

The database is absolutely unique and it took over a year to build, the app is very simple: you run it and it shows the closest pharmacies ... what else as a user would you want? Maybe I am getting confused but simplicity was once an Apple mantra? or not?

The great thing is that in their App Store Review Guidelines they say they would fail applications that are too complex (this is in the first paragraph . in bold !).... go figure !

Now if this is considered by Apple as not worthy of their store maybe it is time to look at alternatives, Microsoft and Android are a lot more interested in apps these days

[Total]

certainly these are the worst programs, not interesting and not useful
and they are brutal

[pst007x]

It is typical Apple, do as you are told, use what we tell you to use and think how we tell you to think. You are lucky that we have allowed you to borrow our products! They are a dictatorship, that re-invent existing technology, and try to cage human diversity. Thank God for Google's Android!

It is typical Apple, do as you are told, use what we tell you to use and think how we tell you to think. You are lucky that we have allowed you to borrow our products! They are a dictatorship, that re-invent existing technology, and try to cage human diversity. Thank God for Google's Android!

[pst007x]

These may be rubbish apps, but censorship is bad. They should simply check for security issues only, and let the customers decide whether they choose to use the apps or not. If this was any other company trying to impose control over your choice there would be complaint, but for some reason Apple can get away with it. What is wrong with people, STOP BUYING THE PRETTY STUFF!!!