The byzantine mechanism by which new iPhone apps are approved for listing in the iTunes App store has always been a subject of somewhat derisive musings among Apple’s many fans.
Yesterday however, the story reached Kafka-esque proportion when Apple rejected an upgrade to Tweetie, arguably the most popular iPhone Twitter app. The reason given was profanity, which they had noticed in a screen shot that displayed a dynamically generated has tag list. (see image)
The truly amusing thing is that Loren Brichter, the developer of the app, did not provide the offending screen shots to Apple, but that the Ooompa Loompa’s at the app store factory generated these screen shots themselves, only to be surprised and dismayed to find that 1.) profanity exists on the internet and 2.) can be displayed on mobile devices and browsers
In apparent realization that perhaps iPhone’s safari browser would need to be removed on similar grounds, Tweetie 1.3 was reinstated in a sudden burst of sanity.
Or could it have been the outcry and ridicule of the Twitter community that ensued?
For your amusement I enclose some of the developers tweets:
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