![]() Hard to believe that anybody could be this blind. “Clearly this app does not ‘ridicule public figures’ and is violating nothing, but Apple has decided the world must be protected from the insidious subversiveness this would force upon the public and the brutal, heinous ridicule that my cruel, cruel caricatures would subject these politicians to. However, it is uncanny that the “offensive” page image they sent me is of the California reps.) Is there anything on this page that could possibly be found offensive?” ![]() Are they trying to shut me down? (Just speculation. “I wonder if they saw my Web site ( that promotes the iPhone app and rejected the app because I am making a Republican Documentary. Ray Griggs, the producer of the “Bobble Rep” app, suffered a blow as he saw his investment in programming and in 544 Tom Richmond cartoons arbitrarily flushed away. ‘Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.’Ī screenshot of this issue has been attached for your reference.”Īt the top right is a screenshot of the objectionable image that Apple attached to their rejection letter. “… We’ve reviewed Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains content that ridicules public figures and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states: Apple rejected “Bobble Rep.”Ī letter from Apple explained the rejection: Shake the iPhone and the rep’s head “bobbles.” It is a cute app, and the caricatures are not unflattering. My buddy Tom Richmond, the brilliant Mad Magazine artist, just finished drawing 544 caricatures of members of congress for an app called “Bobble Rep.” The app works as a directory of every congressman, displaying their contact information by ZIP code or by the GPS location of the iPhone user. Developers have to invest in creating a finished app before submitting it to Apple, which can arbitrarily trash the investments and hopes of aspiring developers - as happened to a friend of mine this week. Developers are looking to strike it rich with the next “iFart,” but as the sheer numbers or apps explodes, the chance of an app being a hit becomes more remote and frustration with Apple’s app approval process grows. Apps for the iPhone have been multiplying at an exponential rate, with over 100,000 now approved.
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