{"id":38125,"date":"2023-01-12T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38125"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:10:02","slug":"poor-app-rejection-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/poor-app-rejection-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor App Rejection Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stammy\/status\/1492979526518939652\">Stammy<\/a> (February 2022, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mb\/status\/1493268857825415168\">Matthew Bischoff<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stammy\/status\/1492979526518939652\"><p>Want to learn iOS dev &amp; build your first, simple app? Don&rsquo;t. Apple will just call it spam.<\/p><p>App Store called \n@StocketaApp spam (was going through testflight review)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stammy\/status\/1493367767927599104\">Stammy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stammy\/status\/1493367767927599104\">\n<p>The App Store called me on the phone &#x1F92F;&#x1F64F;<\/p>\n<p>They said the wording in this notice was unhelpful as the issue was not actually design related.<\/p>\n<p>The real issue stemmed from how I was migrating to an Individual Dev account from a Business acct &amp; there were temporarily 2 Stocketa apps<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1493376679468748805\">Ryan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1493376679468748805\">\n<p>Just imagine if you didn&rsquo;t have 50k followers though.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sam_Ohanaware\/status\/1493023179010314241\">Sam Rowlands<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sam_Ohanaware\/status\/1493023179010314241\"><p>Been writing Mac apps since &rsquo;94.<\/p><p>In 2019, Apple called me a spammer, while trying to launch a v2 product.<\/p><p>They pushed me to adopt IAP &amp; combine several apps into one, replacing an existing app with this new bundled version.<\/p><p>Never again, two years of life wasted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1493600325810507776\">Joe Cieplinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1493600325810507776\">\n<p>Nothing bugs me more about app review than the language they use during rejections. Almost never clear. 9 times out of 10, it&rsquo;s just a cut and paste from the guidelines with no further explanation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachwaugh\/status\/1493278697482248200\">Zach Waugh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachwaugh\/status\/1493278697482248200\">\n<p>The 30% gets so much focus, but this is the real problem with the App Store. Until Apple allows alternate means of distribution, they shouldn&rsquo;t reject any apps except for malware\/scams. Who cares if only 10 people find it useful, or it&rsquo;s the 100th entry in a crowded category?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/mastodon-client-rejections\/\">Mastodon Client Rejections<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/10\/sketchy-chatgpt-app-soars-up-app-store-charts\/\">Sketchy ChatGPT App Soars Up App Store Charts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/apps-that-cant-be-transferred\/\">Apps That Can&rsquo;t Be Transferred<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/getting-feedback-to-apple\/\">Getting Feedback to Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stammy (February 2022, via Matthew Bischoff): Want to learn iOS dev &amp; build your first, simple app? Don&rsquo;t. Apple will just call it spam.App Store called @StocketaApp spam (was going through testflight review) Stammy: The App Store called me on the phone &#x1F92F;&#x1F64F; They said the wording in this notice was unhelpful as the issue [&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":"2023-01-12T21:08:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"b3e873cb-9fe9-4afa-a76d-ae3b656a90a7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-12T21:10:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/As-hzy5_pSvqnba47ZWqQpw","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":[91,130,31,2078,26,2327],"class_list":["post-38125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-iosapp","tag-stocketa"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125","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=38125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38126,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38125\/revisions\/38126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}