{"id":13703,"date":"2016-02-29T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:03:58","slug":"3-months-to-build-3-months-of-app-store-rejections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/3-months-to-build-3-months-of-app-store-rejections\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Months to Build, 3 Months of App Store Rejections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/kimchi-media\/my-first-app-journey-to-the-apple-store-44c764042960#.zf6g58uc0\">Federico Zanetello<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/indieweek.ly\/issues\/7\">Indie Weekly<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/kimchi-media\/my-first-app-journey-to-the-apple-store-44c764042960#.zf6g58uc0\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">App Store Review 3.1 Guideline<\/a> is as clear as it gets: this rejection is completely my fault.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>My app doesn&rsquo;t let the user generate any content: it just lets you enjoy Twitter&rsquo;s content (where you can report\/flag\/block anything\/anyone you want).<\/p><p>Even if I were to implement what I was asked to, Stream uses only real time data, it would be of no use to the app itself.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I like to have as little UI elements as possible: since these in-App Purchases can be <em>&ldquo;re-bought&rdquo;<\/em> <strong>for free<\/strong>, I didn&rsquo;t implement a Restore button.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The reviewer (I assume, newly employed) was using an iPad and was claiming that he couldn&rsquo;t pass the Twitter authorization screen: that&rsquo;s the screen that shows up when you launch Stream for the first time.<\/p><p>The problem was not very clear because of the Reviewer&rsquo;s inaccurately cropped screenshots and ambiguous messages.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Zanetello (via Indie Weekly): The App Store Review 3.1 Guideline is as clear as it gets: this rejection is completely my fault.[&#8230;]My app doesn&rsquo;t let the user generate any content: it just lets you enjoy Twitter&rsquo;s content (where you can report\/flag\/block anything\/anyone you want).Even if I were to implement what I was asked to, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,522,31,1137,26,49],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-iosapp","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13704,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/13704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}