Apple Taketh and Apple Giveth (Sometimes)

October 19, 2009 at 5:56 pm PT

If iPhone app developers have one complaint about Apple’s (AAPL) App Store, it’s that the approval process for apps isn’t transparent enough. Apps have been known to be rejected, or worse, sent into a black hole without an explanation.

Some apps that one might think would be rejected are approved, while others that seem like no-brainers aren’t.

While the Cupertino, Calif., company has made some improvements, such as speeding up the approval process, it’s clear to developers Jon Myers and Chuck Hootman that Apple continues to work in mysterious ways–though they’re not complaining this time.

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Tagged with: App Store, Apple, approval process, Chuck Hootman, digital, Digits, frontpage, hardware, iPhone app, Jon Myers, The Wall Street Journal, Yukari Iwatani Kane

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