{"id":1780,"date":"2008-09-12T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2008-09-20T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T23:16:20","slug":"podcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/podcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Podcaster, an iPhone application from Almerica, was <a href=\"http:\/\/almerica.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html\">rejected from the App Store<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/almerica.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html\"><p>Apple had nothing in the terms prohibiting developers from duplicating features currently available on desktop application. I followed all the guidelines and made sure everything is in the correct place. Yet Apple denies me because I allow users to download podcasts just like iTunes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the past, Apple has <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/without-a-trace\/\">removed applications<\/a> and rejected applications that were arguably not <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2008\/09\/04\/pull-my-finger\">very<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/apple.ars\/2008\/09\/04\/rejected-iphone-dev-to-apple-pull-my-finger\">useful<\/a>. I don&rsquo;t think Apple should be the arbiter of taste or quality, and the applications clearly met Apple&rsquo;s stated terms for inclusion. Most people didn&rsquo;t seem too bothered about the removal of joke applications, but others worried about a slippery slope. Turns out, they were right. As <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2008\/09\/12\/iphone-podcasting\">John Gruber<\/a> says, this is flabbergasting and indefensible. Not only is Podcaster a useful application, but developers will also be less likely to create new applications, since there&rsquo;s so much uncertainty about whether they will be approved. It keeps getting <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/03\/welcome-to-iphone\/\">harder<\/a> to give Apple the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2008-09-13): More from <a href=\"http:\/\/speirs.org\/2008\/09\/12\/app-store-im-out\/\">Fraser Speirs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatcatsoftware.com\/blog\/2008\/why-im-not-developing-iphone-applications\">Brian Webster<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2008\/09\/app_store_exclusion\">John Gruber<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oreilly.com\/iphone\/2008\/09\/a-bridge-too-far.html\">Paul Kafasis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extinguishedscholar.com\/wpglob\/?p=344\">natevw<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chuqui.typepad.com\/chuqui_30\/2008\/09\/fraser-speirs-a.html\">Chuq Von Rospach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2008-09-15): <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2008\/09\/podcasters_rejection\">John Gruber on section 3.3.3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2008-09-20): Angelo DiNardi&rsquo;s MailWrangler (for accessing GMail) was <a href=\"http:\/\/angelo.dinardi.name\/2008\/09\/20\/mailwrangler-and-the-apple-app-store\/\">also rejected<\/a> from the App Store, for duplicating the functionality of Mail.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcaster, an iPhone application from Almerica, was rejected from the App Store: Apple had nothing in the terms prohibiting developers from duplicating features currently available on desktop application. I followed all the guidelines and made sure everything is in the correct place. Yet Apple denies me because I allow users to download podcasts just like [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}