Under the Bridge

No doubt you’re already aware that many developers are upset about the apparent, ah, capriciousness of the App Store approval process. Whilst we’re certainly no strangers to that feeling ourselves — at the moment we have one set of apps on the store with a known crash on 3.0 that Apple won’t approve a fix for, and another app that’s been ‘In Review’ seventy-three days and counting — we haven’t gone out of our way to whine about it because really, what would that accomplish? But here is a truly splendid rant on the subject which talks about the problems with getting apps approved that are written with the PhoneGap project for building native, well native-ish, apps with JavaScript. Short version: Don’t try it.

But aside from the amusement factor, this led us to a site that did look like a good idea; AppRejected.com, which is a compendium of rejection reasons that developers have provided. That would be useful information to keep track of, indeed! However, it seems to have only been active for a few days back in May, so apparently whoever put it up had second thoughts. Or maybe just nobody’s submitting anything. So if you do have an interesting rejection letter, we encourage you to send it to AppRejected and share with us all!

[EDIT: Here's another blog dedicated to amassing rejection reasons. Support them all!]

h/t: Slashdot!