Wacky App Store rejections du jour

they rejected my app because they didnt like my button yesterday

A lot of people have these things called CD collections. I know, it's amazing, but get this: CDs have music on them and you can even take the music off of them and put them on your iPod. I know, What will they think of next?

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1) Apple had NO CHOICE but to ban all torrent-related apps on the app store. Simple as that. Has no-one here heard of The Pirate Bay? How about the makers of Kazaa? How about Aussie ISP iiNet? Have you guys not yet cottoned on to the fact, that assisting illegal torrenting IN ANY WAY can leave you open to lawsuits? Do some research, please!!

2) What about an app that lets you draw Mohammed? What about an app that lets you force-feed bacon to a Rabbi? What about an app that lets you rub the touchscreen to simulate masturbating Jesus while he is on the cross?

Religious vilification is a tricky, not-really-defined area of law. It is not surprising in the least that Apple would steer clear of anything that might potentially be considered religiously offensive.

I know it's the meme du jour to criticise all rejections from the App Store as being Big Brother-ish, Mr Rose, but do a little research, do a little thinking, and at least try and see this from Apple's point of view.

Of all the rejections we have seen, these two are the least strange and the least wrong.

Why do you assume the app with the racist name ("Me so holy", obvious take on "Me so horny") was rejected due to the religion?

(01): I emailed them back with a strong argument based on the fact that there are already 4 other FML apps on the App Store (one of which is the #3 free app in the US), and they just said to resubmit when 3.0 comes out with parental controls. I would totally understand if there weren't any other FML apps on the app store already, but since there are the inconsistency is really frustrating.

My app also got rejected for "objectionable content":

http://jarin.posterous.com/the-offending-fmls

Want to make it sound like someone farted? There's 600 apps for that

Want to check your download of the latest Linux build while you're on the bus? Screw you

This is why the App Store and its principle is just terrible. Who wants to have a massive corporation censor third-party apps? I love Apple products but I've hated the iPhone and all the hype associated with it since its release - simply because it's all too 'closed'.

If an App Store or equivalent is brought to Apple's computer OS then I will take a step back to Windows without hesitation. The fact that I wouldn't be able to modify system properties on my Mac without having to 'jailbreak' it or similar makes me sick. That, by the way, I know, is a long way off (apart from maybe on a Mac netbook?).

I said on a previous post that I was fed up with TUAW's iPhone hype. Another TUAW commenter suggested that the reason for TUAW's obsession was because there's no Mac gossip so they have to talk about the iPhone. That's a fair comment. But if all the reasonable, decent and well written blogs (not necessarily this one [Steven take note]) take a stand against the whole principle of app regulation and censorship then who knows - change could happen. And we all know how much the world likes change!

/justified rant

That is interesting, indeed. I recently received one of these gifts from Apple as well for an app they claimed the same thing about, but without any doubt whatsoever can be used to "infringe" on 3rd Party Rights any more than Apple's own software (like say, iTunes, MobileMusicPlayer, MobileSafari) can. The app is specifically designed *not* to allow this.

Very, very interesting.