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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

#251

Unrelated to the article itself, but a friendly tip for the Hueman guys: the lack of margins on this page made it very hard to read. Not everyone browses full-screen on their 27" iMac. On any window under 1100px, the content runs into the margin on the left, which could easily be avoided with some padding: http://cl.ly/image/2V0A021M1t0S

I had to scroll back down every time I moved forward a page.

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#253

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Don't make any of those categories/icons rounded rects with a label though. I just got rejected for that and had to remove the rounded rect part. I had been using them in a manner similar to Panic's Status Board app to handle configuration of a photo sales app[0]. 0: http://studioproapp.com

You got rejected for using rounded rects? What rule did they invoke?

My guess would be "given the iOS 7 aesthetic, this looks like a button".

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#254

Should have gone with Android. I really want this app, and now they are having to spend time getting it accepted by apple, it's just going to delay an Android version.

Don't be ridiculous. There are multiple android apps that do this already, and the developers obviously don't care about Android that much otherwise they'd have gone with android first.

It's just two webviews anyway, so it should be no real effort for them to port it.

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#255

First 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…

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…

That would be legitimately great. See, for example, The Phantom Edit, or Brokeback to the Future, or Girl Talk's All Day.

Could you rephrase your comment without the sarcasm so I can see what point you're actually trying to make?

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#256
post #120

So how's the Android version doing? Please tell me there is one. Because complaining about the walled garden and then ignoring the larger and more open platform, that's rather silly.

Larger? It's not that easy. There is more Android smartphones sold than Apple phones yep, but 1. thanks to telcos a lot of Android users don't even know what is Android/Google Play (= they'll never download apps) and 2. global app store revenues are still higher on iOS versus Google Play.

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't make any of those categories/icons rounded rects with a label though. I just got rejected for that and had to remove the rounded rect part. I had been using them in a manner similar to Panic's Status Board app to handle configuration of a photo sales app[0]. 0: http://studioproapp.com

You got rejected for using rounded rects? What rule did they invoke?

8.3: Apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product or advertising theme will be rejected

We found that your app is too similar to iOS springboard icons, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

Specifically, the rejection relates to the use of rounded icons like Apple's iOS springboard icons.

Re: We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it

#260
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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…

You're confusing aesthetic design with functional originality. The original iphone was very well designed, but it stood on the shoulders of PDAs and was a natural next step. Just as an open-sourced OS like Android was the next step.
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