Apple now rejecting apps with Pebble Smartwatch support

Post by gambiter » Sat, Apr 25, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

yellowapple wrote: post #404

gambiter wrote: post #395

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First of all, Apple isn't PULLING apps now that the Apple Watch is released. The Pebble app is still there, and you can still use it. This whole uproar is about a single developer who had his app denied by a specific reviewer at Apple for a basic breach of their terms and conditions for putting Apps on the App Store. The general consensus seems to be that a simple rewording (maybe not even having to remove the word '…

> First of all, Apple isn't PULLING apps now that the Apple Watch is released. The Pebble app is still there, and you can still use it. For now. A better analogy would be if Amazon suddenly refused to stock new Apple TVs and Rokus and Chromecasts in its warehouses and only stocked Fire TV devices, if we want to get all semantic about it. > This whole uproar is about a single developer who had his app denied There are…

Post by nebulous1 » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 12:44 AM UTC

andrewla wrote: post #345

nebulous1 wrote: post #22

Until this happens again I would suspect this is just a mistake by whoever reviewed the app for Apple.

This is the only sensible reply on this thread. From the response that Apple provided: > We noticed that your app or its metadata contains irrelevant platform information in the app. Providing future platform compatibility plans, or other platform references, is not appropriate for the App Store. > Specifically, your app and app description declare support for the Pebble Smartwatch. It is pretty clear that the review…