Comments on: Our App Store

By: Ged Maheux

Ged Maheux — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:07:52 +0000

I think the idea of a “Trusted Developer” is great. Something that let’s proven developers get fast tracked through the store. What would be better would be submission guidelines though. In my experience it’s not really the wait that gets devs frustrated (unless they are submitting major bug fixes), but the fear of rejection. If we all knew what was and wasn’t acceptable, it’d go a long way towards eliminating many of the rejections we see today. Instead, we have no guidelines and the rules are unknown. :-(

By: sebastiaan

sebastiaan — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:48:23 +0000

In reply to Frederic.C. Wholly agree with you, Frederic. I don't think anything will change. The moral standards of the one team that uses their opaque process to review things shouldn't be our business.

By: Frederic.C

Frederic.C — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:47:02 +0000

I totally agree
If apple check apps and rejects them for some technical reason not to break the device or make the battery die in less than 2 hours I can understand. I can also be concerned about copyright infrigments in apps.

But all other reasons are killing me. I can play a bloddy game, add a political, sexual or any other kind of material on my phone if I want, I’m an adult.

Next firmware should have parental control, but I don’t think it won’t change so much in the approval.

And this is very strange the way somme apps are rejected, but “guns app” are okay… because they are legal in US but forbidden in most of others contries around the world.

By: Tim Van Damme

Tim Van Damme — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:40:52 +0000

I understand there needs to be a referee. If not, you get one big anarchy lacking any quality. On the other hand, I think a developer should be able to sign something, or earn the trust so he is some kind of “trusted developer”, free to update his apps without needing them to be reviewed.