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Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible'

posted by takyon on Friday May 01 2015, @06:36AM   
from the walled-bonsai-garden dept.

scruffybeard writes:

Apple is paying close attention to the app offerings for its new watch. If your iOS app advertises support for any watch, other than the Apple Watch, prepare for trouble. Apple recently rejected an update to an established iPhone and iPad app because it mentioned support for a non-Apple Smartwatch:

We noticed that your app or its metadata contains irrelevant platform information in the app. Providing future platform compatibility plans, or other platform references, is not appropriate for the App Store. Specifically, your app and app description declare support for the Pebble Smartwatch.

Additionally, Apple has established criteria for Apple Watch developers that reject applications where the primary function is to tell the time.

• Re:Welcome to iLand (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday May 01 2015, @12:38PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday May 01 2015, @12:38PM (#177441) Journal

  Especially ironic from hindsight is the Big Brother speech in the spot:

  Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

  Sounds like a very accurate description of the Apple iOS ecosystem.

  • A garden of pure ideology: By only allowing applications from Apple's App Store to be installed, Apple created a walled garden where it controls what can be put inside. And some of the rules are indeed pure ideology ("we don't want that sort of content on our device").
  • secure from the pests: Security is indeed what Apple claims to be a major advantage of that walled garden mode. Both security from malware, and security from inappropriate content (see also: "pure ideology").
  • Unification of Thoughts: Another claimed advantage of the Apple ecosystem compared to Android is the absence of fragmentation (that is, diversity).

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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