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The Next Web: Apple approved a “Hitler Book” app with Swach Sticker as its logo. How did no one catch this?
Just Another iPhone Blog: App Store Needs to Change the ‘When the Shit Hits the Fan’ Approach to Review Process
Engadget Mobile: Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process
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"Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected... for using the word "iPhone" in the title" http://bit.ly/2XMqMN 2 days ago |
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Apple rejects iPhone book cos it contains da wrd 'iPhone'...and then reverses its stance: http://tinyurl.com/ygqgofz 17 days ago |
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Reading: Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' ( http://bit.ly/2pKaAw ) 17 days ago |
Apple approved a “Hitler Book” app with Swach Sticker as its logo. How did no one catch this?
The Next Web —
... of a book written by Hilter including Nazi symbols as the application icon.
The book titled Mi Lucha and is a book written by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of ideas of the political ideology of National Socialism.
The most shocking feature of the application is unquestionably it’s logo, the Swach Sticker, in plain site in the apps directory.
This comes not days after Apple banned an app for mentioning the word iPhone.
How did no one catch this? ...
App Store Needs to Change the ‘When the Shit Hits the Fan’ Approach to Review Process
Just Another iPhone Blog —
... and Engadget . And then, following that coverage … hey presto, the issue gets almost immediately resolved. Apple reverses earlier decisions by their reviewers and maybe they think all is good at that point. But it’s not at all. It’s the whole process that has huge issues – these one-off ‘interventions’ (a few of them with Phil Schiller even getting in the mix recently) wouldn’t be needed if the system wasn’t so perfectly setup for producing inconsistent and ridiculous decisions. Jason Snell has a great post up at Macworld, detailing the ‘story behind the story’ on the ...
Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process
Engadget Mobile —
... Apple's App Store approval process is one of the great black boxes in the mobile industry, a bizarre place ruled by emotion, erratic logic, and an uneven application of censorship that has driven some developers to the very brink of insanity since the day of iPhone OS 2.0's release. Well, folks, here's the bone just thrown your way from Cupertino: a new dashboard where you can watch closely as your pride and joy makes its way through the bureaucratic assembly line. Before, all you could do was submit, pray, and wait indefinitely for your app to get accepted or ...
