{"id":29348,"date":"2020-06-24T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29348"},"modified":"2022-01-15T14:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:49:32","slug":"struck-rejected-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/struck-rejected-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Struck Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Farrier<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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“Nine rejections, on the basis of their guideline “4.3 Design - Spam.”<\/p>\n

Offensively, this guideline groups astrology (“fortune telling” in their words) alongside “burp and fart apps” under the umbrella of “spam.”<\/p>\n

And when we finally stripped out each astrology feature piece by piece as requested by the Apple employees we spoke to on the phone, we were met by backpedaling and new excuses that didn’t make sense.<\/p>\n

Most recently, we were told dating apps aren’t being allowed despite the fact that (1) two Apple employees told us verbally that dating apps were acceptable and (2) we know of multiple dating apps that have been accepted over this timeframe, demonstrating an apparent bias against us specifically.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-09-08): David Farrier<\/a> (in June, tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We received a call from the App Review team this morning saying they were confused at how we did it, but that the decision (which had been standing for over a month and through 9 rounds of rejections) has been REVERSED!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good news, but it’s frustrating to never get a real explanation for these cases. Who knows whether a similar app submitted today would be accepted or rejected?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Farrier (via Hacker News): “Nine rejections, on the basis of their guideline “4.3 Design - Spam.” Offensively, this guideline groups astrology (“fortune telling” in their words) alongside “burp and fart apps” under the umbrella of “spam.” And when we finally stripped out each astrology feature piece by piece as requested by the Apple employees […]<\/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":"2020-06-24T20:45:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"cb35f639-d6a0-4e25-aeeb-4003790465f5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-15T19:49:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AyzX2OdagTiWu60ADeQRl9Q","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":[91,130,2160,31,1667,26],"class_list":["post-29348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-dating-apps","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348","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=29348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30054,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29348\/revisions\/30054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}