Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#1

Post by pgrote » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:13 AM UTC

Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes
ikamasutra.com

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#2

Post by mdonahoe » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 2:26 AM UTC

Why does apple take 5x as long to reject apps in situations like this?

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#3

Post by martian » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 2:29 AM UTC

"The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store."

This article was originally posted on June 6th. It's now June 29th. After 23 days, this issue is still not resolved.

I'm not a user of the app or a fan, but I find this incredibly curious and sadly opaque.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

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Post by blahedo » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:10 AM UTC

martian wrote: post #3

"The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store." This article was originally posted on June 6th. It's now June 29th. After 23 days, this issue is still not resolved. I'm not a user of the app or a fan, but I find this incredibly curious and sadly opaque.

It's a lot longer than 23 days; the core issue dates back to February. I'm actually not sure what has changed about their situation since February; most of the stuff on the OP was not new.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#5

Post by zalew » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:13 AM UTC

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3852003 IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes (ikamasutra.com) 350 points by varl 73 days ago

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#6

Post by knowaveragejoe » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:22 AM UTC

I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

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Post by zheng » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:29 AM UTC

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #6

I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.

I'm not trying to be snarky, but apparently they don't care that much if they can't handle working with developers about an issue as simple as this. Even just telling them "We have decided not to reinstate your app, sorry" would be better than what they are doing.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

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Post by xtractinator » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 3:58 AM UTC

mdonahoe wrote: post #2

Why does apple take 5x as long to reject apps in situations like this?

I'm pretty sure they have more profitable things to attend to.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#9

Post by zemo » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 4:01 AM UTC

Have they tried making the people have a hair color that is between the accepted and rejected ones? Bisect the acceptance/rejection continuum.

Re: Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes

#10

Post by cageface » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 4:24 AM UTC

I'm fed up with this nanny state app store model. As a hacker I feel like I have an obligation to fight this trend. I'm committed to a couple of iOS projects right now but when they wrap I'm going to take a very hard look at getting back on the open web.