Mike Cohen

REJECTED

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I just got another rejection notice from Apple:

Dear Mr. Cohen,

Thank you for submitting I Can Has Cheezburger 1.5.2 & I Can Has Cheezburger (Ad Free) to the App Store. We’ve reviewed I Can Has Cheezburger 1.5.2 &I Can Has Cheezburger (Ad Free) and determined that we cannot post these versions of your iPhone applications to the App Store at this time because they are not appropriately rated. Our review indicates that the applications’ contents are not consistent with the current rating. I Can Has Cheezburger 1.5.2 & I Can Has Cheezburger (Ad Free) contain user-generated content, which can include frequent mature or suggestive themes. Applications must be rated accordingly for the highest level of content that the user is able to access.

Please visit iTunes Connect to resubmit your binaries and rate your application appropriately.

I don’t want ICHC to be rated 17+. I’d rather just pull it completely rather than continue to fight with Apple.

links for 2009-07-19

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  • Houston, we have a problem
    Some of you may have seen recently that Apple added a content rating system to the store. Unfortunately, they’ve decided to consider all applications that have access to 3rd party content, as a potential loophole and therefore must all be rated 17+.

    “According to Apple, apps that feature an embedded web browser or provide access to 3rd party content also automatically require the 17+ rating”

    In this particular case though, Postie does not allow access to 3rd party content. Postie only connects to our backend servers to access the content that the user themselves added to the system. What’s that content? Their e-mail settings. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.

    (tags: iPhone development apple appstore)

Fort Lauderdale photo walk

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Today’s photo walk was lots of fun, despite the unbearably hot weather. We had a great group of more than 50 people. The group met in front of Starbucks on Las Olas and walked east.

In addition to the regular photos, I took a few sets of bracketed shots for HDR processing. This is one of my favorites.

DSC_7032_HDR

I used an Eye-Fi Pro card in my D90, which geotagged all of my photos. When I got home, I simply left the camera powered on and let it upload the photos wirelessly to my computer and SmugMug.

See my full set of photos here.

ICHC 1.5.2 Submitted

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I’ve submitted version 1.5.2 of ICanHasCheezburger, both free & premium versions. Since I still had 1.5.1 in review, I had to reject it and replace it, which means it’s back at the beginning of the review queue. It’ll be interesting to see whether both are approved at the same time.

New features:

  • Shake to shuffle
  • Movies show web page immediately instead of click to play graphic
  • Action sheet no longer shows ‘save to photos’ for movies
  • Can now email images rather than just links in OS 3.0
  • Allows you to log into ICHC (pro version only)
  • Supports movies from Viddler at FAILblog and other sites
  • free version only shows g-rated content from FAILblog.

Email of the day

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I got the following email this morning:

Mike;

I really appreciate the fact that you designed and made available an app for the iPhone that shows the ICHC site. I’m not bashing you for that.

However, your unchecked ad campaign is a bit asinine. “Unibrows: since 1969” is not an ad. It’s annoying space taking designed to annoy the user into buying the 99 cent version of the app. I must say that it is effective, since I will be buying it as soon as I can get to my computer.

Anyway, thanks again. Even though you’re an ass.

Sincerely;

[name withheld]

Sent from my iPhone