{"id":4387,"date":"2012-02-21T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2012-06-12T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T02:40:11","slug":"air-dictate-2-0-rejected-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/air-dictate-2-0-rejected-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Dictate 2.0 Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.avatron.com\/post\/17732376130\/air-dictate-2-0-still-dead\">Avatron<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12803\">TidBITS<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.avatron.com\/post\/17732376130\/air-dictate-2-0-still-dead\"><p>After Apple yanked Air Dictate 1.0 from the App Store, we scrambled and submitted a brand new Air Dictate 2.0 that satisfied all of Apple&rsquo;s requests. We are pretty proud of the work we&rsquo;ve done in this app. We no longer grab your tap on our big mic button and reposition it onto the little mic button on the hidden keyboard, which is what Apple objected to. In fact, we no longer have a button in the UI at all. Instead of tapping a button, you just raise the phone to your ear, start dictating, and then move the phone away from your ear to stop talking. We not only didn&rsquo;t use private API for any of this; we didn&rsquo;t use <em>any<\/em> API. iOS is doing all of the work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The official reason is non-compliance with Apple&rsquo;s trademark guidelines for Siri, however Air Dictate doesn&rsquo;t use the word &ldquo;Siri&rdquo; or include its icon.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-06-12): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.avatron.com\/post\/24905267410\/well-now-we-know-why-apple-killed-air-dictate\">Avatron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.avatron.com\/post\/24905267410\/well-now-we-know-why-apple-killed-air-dictate\"><p>Today in the WWDC keynote, Apple announced that Siri-style diction will be part of Mountain Lion. Now we know why they unceremoniously removed Air Dictate from the App Store: we had beaten them to the punch. They hate that.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatron (via TidBITS): After Apple yanked Air Dictate 1.0 from the App Store, we scrambled and submitted a brand new Air Dictate 2.0 that satisfied all of Apple&rsquo;s requests. We are pretty proud of the work we&rsquo;ve done in this app. We no longer grab your tap on our big mic button and reposition it [&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-4387","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\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}