From whom is that quote originating? Where is Apple's rejection letter? Which section of App Store guidelines they specifically violated?
Edit: the link was changed from a TNW piece to an admittedly better story at tech.co
Be careful assuming everything in a rejection takes place in the official rejection letter. It can also take place over the phone as well, where nothing gets written down.
Might as well compromise your product and your users to make a few extra bucks, right?
Grow some balls and stand up to your bullies, friend. Your product is popular. People will request it. Keep it off the App Store until Apple comes begging you to submit it again.
They are attempting to do the best job they can for their customers. Depriving your customers because you want to take a principled stand by taking steps that is almostly completely guaranteed to not work just makes no business sense.
Morals outrank money. And it's not even economically a bad decision on a long enough time scale. What's going to make your company look the best ten years from now? Taking a principled stand against censors, on behalf of your users, while maintaining your product's integrity and vision? Or sacrificing your product in order to temporarily gain a few more IOS users, while Apple continues to make themselves look like malevolent idiots?
If I were a business owner, I know what I'd choose.
We teach Android at Treehouse as well, but Apple has refused to let us release the app while including Android content. At the time of review several other applications in the App Store included Android content, but in our case we were told it was against App Store guidelines to have Android content in our app.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/25/tech-education-startup...
I seem to recall someone at google claiming that Apple had not yet approved the Maps app and it wasn't even submitted yet. [citation needed]
Some tech "reporter" heard that some Googler was concerned that Apple may reject the app: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/05/google-maps...
http://www.geek.com/apple/google-now-for-ios-is-ready-but-ap...
It's the same as censorship... Apple can copy the Google Now features, update their app.
And 2 months later they approve Google Now... Tell me where something like that isn't anti-competitive behaviour.
Edit: On the other hand, this seems so ridiculous that I need to question if it's accurate. Can Treehouse provide some proof that Apple said they can't have Android courses available in their app?
[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-ma...
[2] http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-...
The guideline where when you sign up as a developer with Apple, you agree to a contract that says they can remove your content at any time if they feel like it.
Like what they did with Google Now for iOS (the Siri competitor): http://www.geek.com/apple/google-now-for-ios-is-ready-but-ap...
They have always been good at sneaky stuff, like making iTunes slow for Windows... Then it's Windows fault :-) http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/0126252/itunes-stil...
And using an older webkit if a website is launched from the homescreen, so people would prefer native apps instead of websites. http://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/15/performance-of-web-apps-...
It's all about the experience of the user and apple knows that. In all the above stories, it's about bringing a bad experience to the end user and frustrating them, if they aren't doing it the "apple way".
Or just censoring it, if they have to..
I probably had one of the first iPhones and iPod's and as soon as i realized at what sort of company i gave money to.
I switched to Google. Never had any regret.
The lack of apps had been a valid issue for me, but thankfully the Play store has mostly caught up the AppStore. I'll still have an Apple device (stability, better camera, etc) though.
You can find the authors blog post at http://hollylisle.com/apple-made-its-decision-my-turn/
It's probably the best way to do anything against (cr)Apple...
Seems BS if you're just going to censor the education part for your own benefits.
[1]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/how-apple-led-an-...
It's not as if it will prevent people from learning about Android's existence.
