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And here’s one of the main reasons a lot of people are hoping Android mounts a successful challenge to Apple.
Independent developer Flash of Genius was one of the finalists in the most recent Android Developer Challenge thanks to its Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab Android app, and thought that WIN was worth mentioning in its description of the iPhone version of the tool – only to be told, rather sternly by the Apple APPROVAL OVERLORDS that mentioning Android was a THOUGHT CRIME of the highest magnitude.
Here’s the offending mention:
And here’s the ludicrous response the developer received from Apple for daring to namecheck the competition:
Dear Flash of Genius, LLC,
Thank you for submitting Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 to the App Store. During our review of your application, we found that your application contains inappropriate or irrelevant platform information in the Application Description and/or Release Notes sections.
Providing future platform compatibility plans or other general platform references are not relevant in the context of the iPhone App Store. While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!” from the Application Description.
Please log into iTunes Connect to make appropriate changes to the Application Description now to avoid an interruption in the availability of Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 on the iPhone App Store.
Regards,
iPhone Developer Program
Flash of Genius is taking a rather generous standpoint on all this, and has agreed to amend the copy to avoid offending power-mad Apple, because… what else can you do when MIGHTY LORD APPLE tells you to do something?
“Meanwhile, I wish there were a wording that would somehow allow us to leverage our Top 10 finish in the Android Developer’s Challenge in the app description, without offending Apple” says the maker on its (very recently set-up…) blog. Hopefully this mini-outrage has done precisely that.
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Of course the “All Time Top 20 Nazi Hymns” were not conaidered inappropriate by iTunes for nearky 1000 years!?;-/ Only reporters uncovering the scandal made them finally remove it. Good Jib, “Fuehrer” Steve ;-)