Tweetie 1.3 rejected for displaying "offensive language"

"If Apple can't quit shooting the feet of some of the best developers out there, it'll be all too easy for them to switch to a platform that provides less restrictions, less doubt and less uncertainty."

You forgot "less customers".

The most "broken" thing about the approval process is that they caved and opened the gates to thousands of useless, low brow fart apps.

I wish Apple would reject MORE apps and keep a little integrity to the product family.

Let's allow Apps with names like "G-Spot" and "Rusty Trombone" and a few others I can't recall.

Check UrbanDictionary.com if you do not know what these are...

Approved apps - 27,000+, unapproved apps - 15?

If you want to go 100% your way, then write apps for WIN Mobile. If you want the ease AND the marketplace - write a iPhone app and accept certain limitations for the potential to MAKING MORE MONEY. The iPhone is NOT a government project where like free speech, you are guaranteed anything - deal with it. It's like distributing ANYTHING else in this world - there are always limitations, sometimes physical, sometimes logistic but mostly cost ... try to get a new beer into your local supermarket ... here, you sit INSIDE out of the rain and cold waiting for an email from APPLE - OMG! Is that really a travesty? Basically, you ignore the 27,000 apps avaialble and focus on the 15 developers who are USING YOU to cry wolf? Boo hoo, I can't compete so I will start an email campaign to complain my Aston Martin has no cupholders ...

Amazing how many of you are up in arms over this. "The approval process is broken?" Please. It took less than 24 hours to sort this out. Big deal. Have any of you actually worked a real job? Communication takes time. People have other things to do. It's not that one person's job to sit there and personally shepherd Tweetie through the approval process. In case you hadn't heard, the app store is growing exponentially. The poor approver is probably very busy and moving through a lot of stuff.

Less than 24 hours to fix a mistake? Sounds GREAT to me. You people need some perspective. The world does not revolve around iPhone developers or the sycophants that follow them on Apple blogs.

Even when a clear mistake has been made (and the Tweetie decision appears to be a clear mistake), you are talking about one error amongst thousands of correct decisions. Thousands and thousands.

Err, sorry PeteC - two mistakes! No, there have probably been a dozen or so genuine errors (at absolute max) that have been reported. Most of the time the decisions being whined about are clearly correct or understandable.

And when a mistake is made, it is not the end of the world. Indeed, when you are talking about, say, 10 mistakes (genuine mistakes, I mean, not "geez, they're slow" or "I tried to dupe their functionality and they rejected me") in among tens of thousands of correct decisions, you are talking about an error rate less than 0.1% !

That is a great error rate! It is something Apple should be proud of, notwithstanding genuine mistakes (that can easily be corrected) and the need to change when a problem is discovered. "Clearly broken" you say, of a process that has an enviously low error rate! It "needs minor improvements" at best, it is not "broken" at all.

I love the app store and apple was genious for doing this but there aproval procsses is horrid How is it that farts and women in very tight bikinis "not that theres anythign wrong with that ;) but gets aproved on the app store and apps like the satlelite Radio amber alert and South park get turned down is geting really really dumb i mean apple has f'N southpark episodes on itunes to begin with. so anyway apple really need to rework this out

This situation doesn't cause me exasperation as much as deja vu. The games industry suffered the problems of approval processes being misused in the 1980s and 1990s. So we end up with an App Store that tries to arbitrarily dictate what the platform 'should' be used for, while at the same time ironically ensuring that there is zero quality control and epic crapflooding.

It's strange that Apple consistently go down this route with so much readily available evidence showing that it's damaging. It's even stranger that it just seems to be accepted as the norm. I can't think of any platform/channel outside of maybe (NewsCorp owned) SKY TV where the platform holders have set themselves up as moral arbiters. Yes, the mobile operator networks control their own little domains but they don't (any more) prevent apps being installed from elsewhere or other websites being accessed. There would outcry if a desktop OS or a browser was 'managed' in this way.

It's approved.
http://twitter.com/atebits/status/1308221410

THIS is the reason why it's essential that the Dev Team continue to work hard to ensure that for the properly motivated, the iPhone remains an open platform.

Fuck Apple's walled garden. I'll put whatever I like on my phone whether they like it or not.

and THIS is why we have Cydia.