Stupid and unjustified App Store rejection letter of the day

Eh... just one more nail in the abandoning-the-iphone-SDK coffin for me. Not quite there yet, but each one of these fiascos is bringing me closer to it...

If you open Yelp and click on the More icon you can see that they use the same exact icon as well for their recently viewed businesses. It seems like Apple reviewers need to get on the same page and come to some standards.

This makes no sense because Skype uses the same icon.

I suggest 5 minutes till midnight.

The time shown in the Watchmen Graphic Novel/Movie.

After all, who watches the Watchmen?

Exactly. It's not the fact that Apple makes rejections, it's the inconsistency of their logic. Not to mention the silence that often exists when it comes to getting the reason for rejection or what would make an acceptable fix.

If you want another evidence of total inconsistancy, see the 'calls' tab in skype, it looks just like the recent calls icon of the iPhone..! But that dint stop apple from approving it.. Hell! It is one of the most downloaded apps!

Use a stopwatch perhaps?

apple shouldn't have to hold your hand through basic copyright law. Logos are made by people just as writing and music are. Maybe if they use thier own creativity or at least get permission it would pass by the person who has the most boring legal position on the planet.

This is actually quite upsetting. Visit the following site: http://www.iconlet.com/search?n=time

See those 4 clock icons that look remarkably like the one Apple (and CovertBot) use? I made those back when I ran TitanCreations.org. They far predate the iPhone.

Those I found in about a minute. I'm sure if I look harder, I'll find a nearly identical icon that also predates the iPhone.

This is nothing more than the abuse of one's power. It's not a bug. It's not Apple being just. It's one person that just went too far. And who knows, it may the same employee (from my understanding their are only about 40 or so that approve App Store apps) that has made previous bad judgement calls.

The icon needs no change. It's fine and doesn't confuse at all.

As a matter of fact this is a well documented cause for rejection. Something similar happened to my app as I was using the bookmark icon for (wait for it) bookmarks, I fixed it by making sure the default name for a bookmark was "bookmark" as opposed to the name of the bookmarked item and apple was fine with it (similar to this case the icon had been accepted multiple times before).

So my reaction here is that this has happened to hundred of others, and is no big deal. I also think that rejection stories are an easy way to get a bit of attention specially when the app is already well known in which case all the blogs will repeat the story.

Finally I agree with the something the convertbot developer said in their article, the really frustrating thing in here is the delay. In my case the update which was postponed was a critical bug fix. What would be nice is that a rejected app asking for approval after a fix should go back to the head of the stack for the same reviewer, limiting the time wasted