Last week, the system of validation by the AppStore again was in the press after they rejected a software called Bobble-Rep. The purpose of this software is to indicate to the American citizens the name of their representative at the Congress and the means of contacting him or her, and it functions using the GPS localization.
In order to make it more attractive, its programmer had made the choice to replace the photographs of the men (or women) politicians with caricatures. Apple initially considered this point litigious and rejected the software.
After various polemics, Apple re-examined its position and agreed to validate the software. Even though one can appreciates this change of opinion, it does highlight that there is more and more criticisms about this system of validation and this becomes more and more a brake with the development of AppStore.
The operation reminds us of our life with Apple, at least when we had a relationship with them. Sometimes, we formulated an official demand following the hierarchy in order to not offend anybody. Systematically we ended up with a refusal, not because that what we wanted was impossible, but because in the chain, a person preferred to say 'no' rather than to relay the question that was beyond his competence to a superior and maybe get a bollocking (or worse,this is easy at Apple).
To return from there to the AppStore, things are obviously similar. In there is any doubt among the obscure and fluctuating rules, the software is rejected.
