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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

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Post by ekianjo »

GhotiFish wrote: post #44
tomasien wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love what Apple did for the industry, we love using their products, we have varying levels of problems with them as a company. Some are very high, some are low, but that's unrelated to what you're perceiving, which is a love of what they did for the industry and the products that we use.

Popularizing walled gardens? Yah I'm never going to forget that. ever.

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.

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

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Post by mnutt »

xur17 wrote: post #4

I wonder if it was partially rejected due to the use of 'webviews'.

I recently had an app rejected under 2.12 for using webviews. It was dependent on a service that needed OAuth, and I had used a webview just to authenticate. The reviewers rejected it even before attempting to authenticate, and specifically called out the use of webviews.

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

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Post by guspe »

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #29
asdfologist wrote: post #19

With all their patent trolling and absurd tyrannical control over the app store, I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple.

Because of technical merit? Everything you mentioned is politics. I can see how that's not the most important to most people.

There's no pure technological achievement. Politics permeate engineering all the time. I'd rather say I despise Apple's misguided approach to patents than say its techinical merit is "more important". Because given Apple's position, both its techinical merits and its stupid litigations have been shaping the industry.

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

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Post by ChuckMcM »

asdfologist wrote: post #19

With all their patent trolling and absurd tyrannical control over the app store, I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple.

I realize you're just trolling but the answer to your question is because people who love Apple don't see those parts of Apple as relevant to their opinion. Sometimes you meet people with outrageous body odor or hard to fathom beliefs, but other than that you love their insights or their willingness to participate, and so you don't think about them in the things you find objectionable, you think about them for the things you admire in them. I suspect that the things that are important to you, and result in your opinion of Apple, are the not the same things that are important to the people who admire Apple.

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

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Post by xentronium »

GhotiFish wrote: post #44
tomasien wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love what Apple did for the industry, we love using their products, we have varying levels of problems with them as a company. Some are very high, some are low, but that's unrelated to what you're perceiving, which is a love of what they did for the industry and the products that we use.

Popularizing walled gardens? Yah I'm never going to forget that. ever.

What about LLVM and Webkit?

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

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Post by tomasien »

GhotiFish wrote: post #44
tomasien wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love what Apple did for the industry, we love using their products, we have varying levels of problems with them as a company. Some are very high, some are low, but that's unrelated to what you're perceiving, which is a love of what they did for the industry and the products that we use.

Popularizing walled gardens? Yah I'm never going to forget that. ever.

Popularizing... like who else is doing that?

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

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Post by tomasien »

piyush_soni wrote: post #39
tomasien wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We love what Apple did for the industry, we love using their products, we have varying levels of problems with them as a company. Some are very high, some are low, but that's unrelated to what you're perceiving, which is a love of what they did for the industry and the products that we use.

> which is a love of what they did for the industry Like promoting useless patent litigations of 'rounded corners', 'slide to unlock' nature?

You can pick one part of my answer and isolate it from the rest if you like, but I made it clear: we have varying problems with what they do as a company, but many of us admire their larger impact. If you think controlling slide to unlock compares to popularizing the personal computer and the touch-screen smartphone, I guess we're just not going to agree. But I'm 99% sure we both agree that their patent litigation is ridiculous.

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

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Post by socmoth »

crazygringo wrote: post #48

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…

I actually did this policy to get one of my apps in the store. As more people eventually use it (and presumably good reviews roll in), I anticipate that I will be able to remove the features which I didn't think were needed.

On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of apple having editorial review over apps for being too simple. The only app which I feel might be too simple is an additional fart or flashlight app. And I'm still inclined to let those be distributed in some way (if not directly through the app store process).

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

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Post by durbin »

archagon wrote: post #50

"Apple sucks" and "use Android" aren't really productive responses to an article like this. Consider taking your quips to a site like Reddit.

I disagree, you don't need to say anything derogatory about Apple but saying that it is a blessing in disguise that Apple didn't let you into their walled garden when you have a much larger and open playground in Android is a very productive response.
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