{"id":26461,"date":"2019-09-03T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26461"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:39:17","slug":"red-eye-rejected-from-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/03\/red-eye-rejected-from-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Eye Rejected From The Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessesquires.com\/blog\/introducing-red-eye\/\">Jesse Squires<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.jessesquires.com\/blog\/introducing-red-eye\/\">\n<p>I recently released a menu bar Mac app called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexedbits.com\/redeye\/\">Red Eye<\/a>. It&rsquo;s free and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexedbits.com\/redeye\/\">download it here<\/a>. It prevents your Mac from going to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Red Eye was rejected from the Mac App Store. I wanted to distribute there, as well as independently. The first reason was a <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/design\/human-interface-guidelines\/macos\/overview\/themes\/\">Human Interface Guidelines<\/a> violation, because you have to right-click Red Eye in the menu bar to open the menu to quit the app, which reviewers said is &ldquo;confusing to users&rdquo;. I think that&rsquo;s debatable. The second reason for rejection was for &ldquo;duplicate functionality that already exists in the Mac App Store&rdquo;, which I think is bullshit and arbitrary. I counted three dozen Markdown editors in the Mac App Store before I got tired of scrolling through the search results. It is especially frustrating when the Mac App Store is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/281849\/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams\/\">full of fucking scams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Squires: I recently released a menu bar Mac app called Red Eye. It&rsquo;s free and you can download it here. It prevents your Mac from going to sleep. [&#8230;] Unfortunately, Red Eye was rejected from the Mac App Store. I wanted to distribute there, as well as independently. The first reason was a Human [&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":"2019-09-03T20:56:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ca4ca41-3fc4-43bc-b9ba-d02bd77c398c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-05T19:39:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXKTKQT_EQ7y5utAr13w5jA","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":[130,30,32,39,1609,2062],"class_list":["post-26461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rejection","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-14","tag-sleep-mode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26461","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=26461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26462,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26461\/revisions\/26462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}