{"id":482,"date":"2009-08-12T00:26:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T04:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-08-11T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:28:09","slug":"even-more-rejected-from-the-app-store-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/12\/even-more-rejected-from-the-app-store-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Even more &#8220;rejected from the App Store&#8221; tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/08\/alt-text-apples-appalling-approach-to-iphone-app-approvals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lore Sjoberg<\/a> joins all the other sad-sack would-be iPhone\/iPod Touch developers, having had all of his application rejected by those capricious Apple gatekeepers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I, myself, have submitted several applications to the iPhone Developer Program, and have been rejected every time. I think if you look over my list of apps and the supposed reasons for their rejection, you\u2019ll see that Apple\u2019s decisions are pure whimsy, drawn up from the whimsy mines deep beneath the company\u2019s headquarters in sunny Cupertino, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low-Fat Chicken Breast Recipe Book<\/strong><br \/>\nApparently, Apple can\u2019t even handle the word breast, because it rejected this app, which is nothing more than a guide to cooking healthful, delicious, boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Each recipe comes with detailed instructions and a helpful video showing the dish being prepared by a naked porn star.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steal Me!<\/strong><br \/>\nThis handy app uses motion detection to determine when your iPhone has been set down for three minutes or more, at which point it begins to yells a recorded message: \u201cSteal me! Just grab me and run! You can get a hundred bucks or so, easy! Spend it on drugs! Anyone who buys an iPhone has too much money anyway! Go for it!\u201d I have no idea why Apple rejected this app, but I suspect the company is working on its own version and didn\u2019t want the competition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lore Sjoberg joins all the other sad-sack would-be iPhone\/iPod Touch developers, having had all of his application rejected by those capricious Apple gatekeepers: I, myself, have submitted several applications to the iPhone Developer Program, and have been rejected every time. I think if you look over my list of apps and the supposed reasons for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[160,27],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}