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My App Is Dead in the Water

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Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by sokoloff »

ary wrote: post #4

One has to wonder if what Apple actually objects to is the display of logos (from the favicons) in the list of links. They’re an incredibly brand conscious company and almost certain have people scouting for things that could get them sued by the owners of other brands.

It would seem to be odd for a mark owner to sue after specifically putting out a favicon, which is intended to be used to visually ID that site in a sea of tabs/links.

Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by fouc »

wsc981 wrote: post #6

Painful, but I guess it's up to the individual AppStore reviewer to figure out what is ok or not. I actually created a few years ago a HackerNews client as well for iOS, but it never got through the review process, not even version 1.0. I was surprised, since many other HackerNews apps with similar features were allowed. At that point I just gave up and put the source code on Github, for whole the world to see. I bel…

I'd assume other reviewers were involved once he challenged the results.

Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by sokoloff »

Apple told you what to do:

> Require users to customize their news sources upon launching your app

Make it a setting. Anyone who is going to use your app is qualified to paste a URL into a text field (or click a radio button indicating they want to use news.yc vs old.xy)

Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by Anechoic »

mscasts wrote: post #23
redial wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rules 1 and 2.

What are you refering to? HN guidelines? I was just trying to be funny as well as point out the obvious reason why Apple won't care about him :)

I think s/he is saying - Rule 1: be wealthy, Rule 2: be an important app developer

Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by pmilla1606 »

This is a shame, I'm sorry to hear.

I loved this app for a long time because it was the only one (that I found) that would cache comment threads on the device - this meant I could read comments on the subway and/or without access to the internet.

A few months ago the app was rewritten in Swift and lost my most treasured feature, not that it matters anymore.

Thanks for the years of connectivity-anxiety free comment reading!

Edit: If you do get passed this (I really hope you do) please consider adding an option that would fetch and save comments on the device. I'll pay for it.

Re: My App Is Dead in the Water

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Post by mscasts »

Anechoic wrote: post #27
mscasts wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you refering to? HN guidelines? I was just trying to be funny as well as point out the obvious reason why Apple won't care about him :)

I think s/he is saying - Rule 1: be wealthy, Rule 2: be an important app developer

Of course that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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