This pleadings with Apple make me wanna throw up. I can't make myself even read how great you are and it is not fair. The only thing not fair is you submitting it to Apple.
50 hues of gray is what this is.
We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
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Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#212So far few people have addressed Apple's argument. Does this app provide valuable utility? Does it enable people to do something they couldn't do before or in a way they couldn't do it before?
There are already many mood trackers, just search the app store. This is certainly not anything new. The one thing that makes this one different from the others is that it seems to have no extra features. But that can't be their design vision, because they plan to add a social aspect and more views and editing functions. So what's special about this app in the way it stands right now?
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
And going "nuclear" on Android because they felt that their iOS was soooo original it should be protected by all patents, trademarks and laws in place. Apple is the Disney of IT, seriously.
It was so original. I can't believe anyone contests this. I remember seeing an iPhone for the first time. Compared to all other phones it was 10 years ahead in vision. All other phones were suddenly ludicrously laid out, with stupid designs. Even the settings section for the iPhone blew every single other phone in existence out of the water. Something that simple, that essential, had been revolutionised by this thoug…
I agree 100% with you. It was very original and a very good product.
That doesn't mean they shouldn't have competition. Competition is a basic requirement for a functional economy.
Which is why the patient system is broken.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#214First of all, that sounds like a really cool idea for an app. I want it. But secondly, of all the app rejection stories I've ever heard... this one is the easiest to fix. Just add some more features, who cares, and resubmit it. Ideas: annotate/categorize the things that are making you happy/unhappy. Maybe have categories/icons for them. (Friends, party, loneliness, exercise, ate well, ate bad, had sex, no sex, fought…
Rating your happiness from 1 to 10 would make it easy for the scale to drift. How do you compare how you felt today to how you felt 8 months back, the last time you issued a 10? I think comparing with yesterday is a great way to do this: I still know exactly how I felt yesterday, and I know how I feel today.
THIS :)
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the jump from unreasonable to immoral is rather larger than you seem to imply.
Shouldn't we think of the App Store in the same way that people and companies cannot force a retailer to stock their own product.
Why do people continue to use this terrible analogy? The App Store is not like Walmart.
A better analogy would be a car company that forced you to come to them for all of your service and for any after-market work you wanted to do.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#216So they had a submission screen and a probably blank graph. It's pretty easy to go back and add a tutorial with colorful graphics and an example graph, a few help pages describing the idea and concept, etc.. Honestly they should have just added some more filler pages rather than writing this blog entry, both are about as tough.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever seen a good movie? Think for a second about that movie. What made it good? Now imagine if you could make that movie even better for yourself. Imagine this movie was distributed along with a plastic box with a few knobs and dials on it. Wouldn't it be a better movie if you could turn the knobs to adjust the parameters of the movie -- there really aren't that many fundamental parameters to movies. You cou…
What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) for the movie? And had a director's commentary track? With a second audio track that had the actors telling jokes? Or even just take all of the funny moments that happened while filming, where people missed their lines, and put them on the same DVD? Maybe they could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie that was replac…
> What if the movie came with the full set of trailers (preview, theatrical, etc.) [...] could even throw in an entirely different ending for the movie [...]
Awesome idea! Throw this in a locked device with some kind of DRM to make sure our viewer has a fully immersive uniform experience, and I'm ready to throw my life savings at it.
(Apologies for that, I couldn't resist pointing out to you where that train of thought has taken the market. ;) )
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#218A walled garden can be used to guard against bugs, viruses, spam. But when its used to curate according to somebody's idea of taste or usefulness, that's arrogance. Let the market decide.
Absolute power corrupts.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#219"Apple sucks" and "use Android" aren't really productive responses to an article like this. Consider taking your quips to a site like Reddit.
Or at least, we don't need 10 comments saying the exact same thing.
Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
As long as users are not allowed to install their own apps, Apple have "absurd tyrannical control" over iOS apps.
Well, as long as users could not care less, it doesn't count as "absurd tyrannical control" in my books.
Users are mostly unaware. You'd be surprised at how many users think Apple makes all of the apps in the App Store. I think the biggest problem is truth in advertisement. If it were properly regulated, getting an iPhone would be advertised as something more akin to leasing than purchasing.