Store feature, then rejection (and later reversal) of PCalc’s Notification widget. Next up was Launcher from Cromulent Labs – again featured and later removed, but not reversed. And then thi...
From Cromulent Labs, whose app launching widget was initially approved by Apple and then removed from the App Store:
Two of the other affected apps were Drafts (seemingly because it used buttons in the widget) and Launcher (because it launched other apps). Like PCalc, Drafts and Launcher both had their widgets...
and checks over 4,000 custom URL schemes and hasn’t yet had any run-ins with App Review (well, at least not with respect to checking URL schemes). So, at least for now, app launching apps and ...
rejected the Launcher app 1 so my hopes weren’t high for
and present themselves on the platform. Extensions, the widgets, the new file approach. But this, this or this shows that Apple is quite unsure how to approach this change in their control of iO...
Greg Gardner: Launcher Followup and Thoughts on the App Store Review System – Cromulent Labs
widget ran afoul of a company’s difficult pattern guidelines. Launcher’s founder, Greg Gardner, complained in a blog post that a statute in his box was both misleading and inconsistent, open...
widget ran afoul of a company’s difficult pattern guidelines. Launcher’s founder, Greg Gardner, complained in a blog post that a statute in his box was both misleading and inconsistent, open...
afoul of the company’s stringent design guidelines. Launcher’s founder, Greg Gardner, complained in a blog post that the ruling in his case was both unclear and inconsistent, opening a wider...