Changing icon from green blob to sunflower results in AppStore approval
When Alkali Media's "CrudeBox" was submitted to Apple for inclusion in the AppStore, it got rejected. The selection of rude sounds it makes -- click an icon to make it fart, sneeze, belch, "wet fart," ans so on -- was "offensive."
So they just resubmitted it with a different name and bright, colorful graphics, and it was approved.
... we received word that once again Crudebox was too obscene and offensive for the iTunes App Store. After moving past the inevitable feeling of frustration towards Apple, we decided to poke some fun at Apple's app approval team. What if we were to submit the same sounds as before, except this time around we make the app look extra flamboyant and change the name to the ironically appropriate, Prudebox?Eight days later we would received an e-mail from Apple stating that our recently submitted application, Prudebox, has passed the approval process and is now ready for sale.
This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval.
Crudebox Renamed PrudeBox, Goes All the Way on the Third Try [Alkali via CrunchGear]
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"This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval."
Kind of like the Federal Reserve and the IRS?
They don't let you see the inner workings because there are no inner workings. It's just like Google.
Dean: Just hundreds of thousands of monkeys working for PayPal credit! I knew it all along!
Right, that's just it. There's some sort of database of outstanding submissions, and a bunch of guys who have to get through 7 billion a day. CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK.
From the article:
"the female orgasm sound"
Everyone knows the female orgasm is forbidden in the USA -- right?
I was thinking that it's just like the movie classification "system". Completely impervious to outside scrutiny, under the illusion that this makes it more robust. Simpler in the long run to have public rules, and acknowledge that they might have to be changed from time to time.
Actually this explains a lot. I'm more than willing to believe that the "obscene" excuse is often just a cover Apple uses when it doesn't want to approve an ugly, amateur-looking app because it offends the Apple aesthetic.
"This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval."
Um, I thought we were already (righteously) heaping it with ridicule (at least I know I was) - knowing the specifics would simply allow us to make more focused and exacting ridicule.
Well, just imagine it being even worse!
"This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval."
Just like the USPTO?
They also changed some of the names - for example "Wet Fart" in the first picture is "Big Toot" in the second. "Peeing" = "Piddle", "Vomit" = "Sicky" etc. I assume the sounds are the same, but if Apple have a bad words list it's possible they just sidestepped that by changing the names.