techcrunch.com - 4/21/2009
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The number of times I get pinged about an iPhone app getting rejected is almost catching up to the number of times I get pinged for ones accepted. Obviously, it’s a very small percentage that get rejected, but developers are getting increasingly annoyed — and for good reason in ...
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Apple iPhone app rejected due to iPhone like icon?
Phones Review —
... It appears Apple has rejected another application for the Apple iTunes App Store, and according to a report over on techcrunch, iPhone app developers are becoming increasingly annoyed. ...
The State Of The iPhone Is Strong Very Strong
MacBytes.com —
... one of those devices has had an average of 27 apps downloaded to it. 27 apps — that do everything from games to music to movie times to fetching me a taxi. I remember the phone I had before the iPhone, fondly: Motorola’s RAZR. It had zero third-party apps, and the most exciting thing it could do was take a grainy picture. That was just two years ago. Look, Apple’s iPhone platform is not perfect. The app approval process, to put it lightly, sucks. There are apps getting rejected for questionable reasons , that are forced to wait weeks to just be reviewed again. And then there ...
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