Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
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Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#2A minor point, but the app was rejected rather than "shut down".
It's a shame, it seems like a neat application and I can totally imagine using an app like this to weigh spices or coffee beans.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#3That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great!
This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (and why most of my recent side project work has been on web apps). App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Add in the the real and psychological barriers app review imposes when making bug fixes or updates, and it makes going back to the web rather attractive. It'd be nice to see Apple make some changes to the process.
(I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terribly interesting for side projects - though that's my problem, not Androids's.)
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#4And this is precisely the problem with centralization. It forces a Yes or No when the appropriate answer is Wu.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#5That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (and why most of my recent side project work has been on web apps). App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on som…
> I know I could move over to Android dev, but since I use an iPhone it's not terrible interesting for side projects
Fragmentation and the frequency of device- or vendor-specific bugs and other issues take a lot of the fun out of Android dev for me.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#6Really cool app, and a shame Apple rejected it. Using a spoon was a very clever idea.
Why did you choose to display weight in grams to 3 decimal points when the measurements are only accurate to within 3g? It would be better to not display the values after the decimal point, so you don't give your users a false sense of accuracy.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
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Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#8I would happily pay money for this app, a true shame that it has been rejected. This story makes me wish that there were easy to use sideloading opportunities for app developers within iOS.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#9A minor point, but the app was rejected rather than "shut down". It's a shame, it seems like a neat application and I can totally imagine using an app like this to weigh spices or coffee beans.
My guess is that Apple didn't want their customers ruining their phone screens by putting heavy objects on it.
By accepting the app, Apple is implicitly allowing the use case of using the phone as a scale.
Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale
#10A minor point, but the app was rejected rather than "shut down". It's a shame, it seems like a neat application and I can totally imagine using an app like this to weigh spices or coffee beans.
My guess is that Apple didn't want their customers ruining their phone screens by putting heavy objects on it. By accepting the app, Apple is implicitly allowing the use case of using the phone as a scale.
Exactly this.
"Oh, let's see how accurately it weighs 50lbs!"