New Site Puts The Spotlight On Rejected iPhone Apps
Tales of Apple rejecting iPhone App Store apps have become commonplace these days as developers take their sob stories to the masses. It was only a matter of time before someone collected the information and opened a one-stop repository for them.
The brainchild of iPhone app developer Adam Martin, AppRejections.com is the place to go. Formerly a developer for what he calls “a large multinational games publisher,” Martin began writing iPhone apps in late 2008, and after reading other developers’ rejection stories, he was inspired to create a resource devoted to the subject.
As Martin explains on the site, “Since Apple point-blank refuses to document the criteria — or even discuss the matter on anything except a case-by-case basis — I decided to collate all the known examples of rejected apps. And so this site was born.”
The site encourages readers to send app rejection news to Martin’s Twitter account, @redglassesapps. For now, there are only 2 pages of rejection notices on the sparsely-designed site, but as word about it spreads, that number should balloon accordingly.
For his part, Martin hopes the site will create better communication between app developers and Apple: “Read it for fun. Read it to find out the cutting edges of iPhone dev that other developers are riding along. Read it to find out what you can (and can’t) get away with. Show it to clients who ask too much, as evidence that you’re not being difficult — their app really will get rejected if you add the features they’re demanding!”