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Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible'

posted by takyon on Friday May 01 2015, @06:36AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by theluggage on Friday May 01 2015, @04:46PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Friday May 01 2015, @04:46PM (#177509)

    First, if you RTFA you'll see that Apple have already relented and withdrawn their rejection of the App in question.

    Second, it clearly hasn't occurred to anybody to do a quick plausibility check and search for "Pebble" in the App Store. I find over a dozen Pebble smartwatch-related Apps (including the official Pebble App). There are even a few mentions of Android.

    That said, according to TFA the App Store guideline saying you can't mention other mobile platforms does still exist - seems like Apple want to apply it selectively to stop blatant Android/Win Mobile advertisements (but that some of their reviewers haven't got the memo) which doesn't feel like something to inspire the confidence of App developers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @08:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @08:11AM (#177811)

    That there are already apps in the app store that mention Pebble is irrelevant, The summary implied this was a new change in policy (or at least interpretation thereof) and thus might only be applied to new app of actual updates to apps but not necessarily retroactively applied to existing apps.

    You do have a point about reading TFA though. That information should really have been in the summary, but for my part I don't often RTFA anyway, I mostly come here for the comments on the story which can often be more interesting/informative than the article itself, I do make exceptions and actually RFTA when I feel it is necessary or worthwhile to, but in this case it was plausible enough and not important enough to me so I didn't feel the need to.