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The goal to avoid user confusion and scams is a good goal. Even if there are a few millions XScreenSaver users (wow) on another platforms, there are orders of magnitude more potential new users who should not be mislead. How to avoid confusion is a good question, but accepting the old name doesn't appear to be a provably best solution.
Can't the name be different but the application appear in searches based on the reference to the name of XScreenSaver somewhere in the description?
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I agree wholeheartedly with you. However, there is no shortage of articles detailing Apple's arbitrary App store approval process. Yet, the number of applications on the App store keeps on increasing and increasing. What is striking is none (or I haven't come across one) of these articles end with the developer washing their hands off the App store and vowing never to develop another iOS app. Instead, most of them se…
> What is striking is none (or I haven't come across one) of these articles end with the developer washing their hands off the App store and vowing never to develop another iOS app. Probably because that's a foolish approach as a developer. If your app is worth a damn, then preventing it's use by potential customers simply because of your personal opinion is fairly inconsiderate. Should someone be deprived the use of…
If someone doesn't release on iOS because the money they get from sales isn't worth the various negative aspects (e.g. frustration of dealing with reviewers, giving support to a business model they disapprove of), that also seems a perfectly reasonable approach to take.
I don't own a Windows box, or an Xbox or PS3. If I said I was being deprived of video games because Call of Duty doesn't run on "linux on a netbook from 2008", I don't imagine I would get much sympathy.
Why would I need a screensaver for an iOS device?
* Linus Torvalds
* Daniel J. Bernstein
* Theo de Raadt
* Jamie ZawinskiTheir approval process has been so random and stubborn lately. I've been struggling with a submission for 2 months now where they keep rejecting the app cause they want me to change the text on a button.
That's pretty bizarre. Care to elaborate on that?
Apple might be wrong, but jwz is a dick. Just read the comments on that link and see how abusive he is to the other commenters.
Well, they are pretty terrible responses. And people expect brusqueness from jwz at this point.
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"Wrong" how? Morally wrong? Against their rules? They have clause about not misleading users and they are enforcing it.
Wrong, as in unreasonable and irrational.
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Well, they are pretty terrible responses. And people expect brusqueness from jwz at this point.
Doesn't mean the brusqueness is appropriate or called for. I don't care what jwz has accomplished, basic human decency is something we should all strive for.
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That's pretty bizarre. Care to elaborate on that?
I've already mentioned it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4300688
> - in-app purchase does not provide a restore button (which I've never seen in any other app btw)
Really?! Every app I use has a restore button. As a user, I'm happy they reject your app. Otherwise, if I buy that "thing" from you (via IAP) on my iPhone, it's not available on my iPad, iPod touch, or even iPhone if I restore it to factory settings. The point of IAP is: you purchase it once, it's available on all your personal devices. But your method is: every new device must purchase it again and again and again. I'm not saying you're scamming, but you're not playing by the rules customers have come to expect.
So, I'm with Apple in this specific case. In my view, your app "deserved" to be rejected. But, a 2 week interval between review results? That really sucks. Shame on them.