Comments on: iTunes App Store Denies Apps Without Consistency!

By: I, Blog » The Promise of the Phone that Doesn’t Suck

I, Blog » The Promise of the Phone that Doesn’t Suck — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:26:23 +0000

[...] greatness, and then right as it seems that they can’t fail, they start rejecting apps for duplicating itunes or iphone functionality and then start waving the NDA flag when people start complaining about this [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:38:51 +0000

Great read – thanks for posting it. I definitely agree with what you’ve said – and it hardly makes sense on what is behind their given reason. I want to download podcasts OTA. I don’t want my entire life to revolve around syncing with iTunes – the more I can do without connecting a cable to my laptop the better. I mean that’s the point of the “mobile” device!

I just don’t understand this latest rash of horrible decisions made by Apple regarding this type of application – and I wish they would stop making the decision for me if something is useless or not.

By: Mobility Today Application | David Ciccone

Mobility Today Application | David Ciccone — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:56:57 +0000

[...] to see Apple now is rejecting my famous podcasting application for other websites. According to Podcast Answer Man they feel that these sort of applications do not deserve to be in a application store. I do wish [...]

By: design

design — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:01:38 +0000

That sucks!! That app was gonna be awesome. Hopefully iTunes will get there stuff together and change there mind. That is so crazy….

By: Geek News Central

Geek News Central — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:29:23 +0000

Apple Bans Second Podcasting App from App Store…

For the second time in under a week Apple has rejected a Podcasting Application from The Apple App Store. Earlier in the week Cliff Ravencraft of GSPN had his Podcasting Application Rejected from the App Store. Then today the folks over …

By: John Buehler

John Buehler — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:03:35 +0000

Sounds like Apple needs some competition in is App business.

By: Fred from Long Island

Fred from Long Island — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:50:25 +0000

Well said, Cliff! There are many versions of the same application already (tip calculators, for example). If podcasters want to create an iPhone app to provide a customized listening/viewing experience, then why not? To approach this from another perspective, what is inappropriate about your type of application anyway? It’s not “distributing podcasts through the App Store.” It’s an RSS feed reader, customized for your listeners.

Apple folks, if you are reading these comments, please reverse this decision. Cliff co-hosts a Mac user podcast (among the many he produces), and he is a great evangelist for the podcasting movement, which sells iPods and generates traffic to iTunes. Good for Apple’s bottom line!