{"id":120,"date":"2008-09-15T20:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/09\/15\/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:23:26","slug":"iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone App Store Rejections, Twisty Maze Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/almerica.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html\">Apple&#8217;s rejection of the Podcaster app<\/a> from the iPhone App Store has been widely blogged.  Apple rejected the functionality because it &#8220;duplicated&#8221; functionality in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the tip of the iceberg for a bunch of messy policy decisions facing Apple.  Let&#8217;s say a third-party $9.99 WidgetExpress app is making $50k day, with 30% to Apple.   What happens when a developer submits a $0.99 (or free) competitor?<\/p>\n<p>Will Apple start to reject apps that threaten an existing app&#8217;s revenue stream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s rejection of the Podcaster app from the iPhone App Store has been widely blogged. Apple rejected the functionality because it &#8220;duplicated&#8221; functionality in iTunes. This is just the tip of the iceberg for a bunch of messy policy decisions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/iphone-app-store-rejections-twisty-maze-ahead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}