Yahoo issues, retracts complaint about Apple's App Store
Soon after the product manager for Yahoo's Messenger program for iPhone posted a complaint about Apple, the official company blog retracted the post and chalked it up to a misunderstanding.
"My bad," Sarah Bacon began her corrected post, "I was mistaken."
Originally, the product manager had criticized the iPhone maker in a post entitled "And so we wait...on Apple." In it, Bacon said that the iPhone App Store approval process was "somewhat unpredictable," and she blamed Apple for the delay of the latest update to Yahoo Messenger.
While she originally said the application had been submitted to Apple for approval weeks ago, that changed in the retraction soon posted on the Yahoo Messenger Blog.
"Turns out I didn't have the latest information about our Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app, which is awaiting approval and release by Apple," she said, adding that the company withdrew its previous submission of the program to make changes.
She continued: "So the newly submitted Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app has been with Apple for less than a week, and is well within the timeframe for their approval process."
Yahoo now expects Apple to approve their update to its Messenger application very soon, and Bacon admitted she jumped the gun in criticizing the iPhone maker. In recent weeks, Apple's approval process for the App Store has come under fire in the media, prompting company executive Phil Schiller to personally fight back.
"My bad," Sarah Bacon began her corrected post, "I was mistaken."
Originally, the product manager had criticized the iPhone maker in a post entitled "And so we wait...on Apple." In it, Bacon said that the iPhone App Store approval process was "somewhat unpredictable," and she blamed Apple for the delay of the latest update to Yahoo Messenger.
While she originally said the application had been submitted to Apple for approval weeks ago, that changed in the retraction soon posted on the Yahoo Messenger Blog.
"Turns out I didn't have the latest information about our Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app, which is awaiting approval and release by Apple," she said, adding that the company withdrew its previous submission of the program to make changes.
She continued: "So the newly submitted Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app has been with Apple for less than a week, and is well within the timeframe for their approval process."
Yahoo now expects Apple to approve their update to its Messenger application very soon, and Bacon admitted she jumped the gun in criticizing the iPhone maker. In recent weeks, Apple's approval process for the App Store has come under fire in the media, prompting company executive Phil Schiller to personally fight back.
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In a related story, Yahoo has announced the reassignment of their former Yahoo product manager to their new remote office located in a suburb of Nome, AK.
Can you imagine how she would have reacted if they had actually {gasp} asked her to change something about the app?
So when they are in a hurry apple has to jump and when they drag their feet releasing features for the rest of us they could care less.
I think apple should send them a letter saying when you start stepping up your efforts to support our product then maybe we will release your apps on the iphone a little faster.
Also, they appear to have deleted comments from the entry before they edited the post.
I hope one day they will do something about Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. Do it right or just let it die. Maybe they could just kill it and use the developers to work on Adium to make it fully functional with all Yahoo! services. That would be great. Think of it: Having Adium work perfectly with Yahoo! and maybe downloading a small Adium Xtra for SMS and whatever premium features Yahoo! has.
Can you say, "Oops!"
Well, I wouldn't throw away all that hard work on the blog post...
IMHO the person should hang on to it since it'll come in handy eventually.. Lets face it Apple app store approval process is not exactly a work of art... they have usability to consider, mature content entanglements at every turn and finally the CEO of AT&T has to be in a good mood or the app gets the axe...
Okay so I've gone a little beyond the truth, but not as far as you'd think...
I mean these lame excuses like the Application was rejected since it duplicates the functionality already present in the iPhone? What are they smokin!?! That excuse could disqualify 99% of the apps on the app store if they felt like it. They don't, and they wouldn't, but the great thing about a nebulous excuse like that is they can use it whenever and however it suites them.
It's tantamount to cops giving out speeding tickets in a town without any speed limit signs.
Q: How was I speeding officer? This town has no speed limit signs anywhere!
A: Simple, you were speeding because I said you were speeding!
Dave
"My bad," Sarah Bacon began her corrected post, "I was mistaken."
"Turns out I didn't have the latest information about our Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone app?" adding that the company withdrew its previous submission of the program to make changes.
She is not alone.
You think 20 odd million people are going to throw their iPhones away because a handfull of developers threaten to go to the Zune-phone!?!
Blog releases like this are just link bait to advertise vapourware. If I were Apple I would announce and enforce a minimum 2 month ban on release post-approval to developers who publicly criticize their process.
That'll keep the interwebs focussed on real issues... like how many cameras the new iTablet is going to have!
It's like your girlfriend accusing you of cheating, before asking where you were.
Why do all these companies feel like Apple owe them something? Apple is not a public utility company. And iPhone is not a life necessity like water or electricity. Get your high horses and stop complaining.
It is typical of women to accuse first and say "I am sorry later".
It's like your girlfriend accusing you of cheating, before asking where you were.
Why do all these companies feel like Apple owe them something? Apple is not a public utility company. And iPhone is not a life necessity like water or electricity. Get your high horses and stop complaining.
Say that that was a joke, please. Or delete it. We really don't need those types of remarks here, even if some of our readers and posters weren't women, which they are.
Thats one reason why some of those rejections get reversed.
Apple must simplify their rules so that they can't be interpreted differently by different people reviewing apps, and also so that developers reading them know EXACTLY what they can, and can't do.
That doesn't seem to be the situation now, and I wonder if that's intentional on Apple's part.
It is typical of women to accuse first and say "I am sorry later".
Now that is Fark-like comment.
Say that that was a joke, please. Or delete it. We really don't need those types of remarks here, even if some of our readers and posters weren't women, which they are.
you are a moderator. there should be a delete button in front of you.
you are a moderator. there should be a delete button in front of you.
Thank you for explaining. I was wondering how I've deleted other posts in the past.
I prefer to give people a chance to rectify their errors, as long as it isn't going too far off, otherwise, I will delete it. I still will if a response is forthcoming soon enough.
It's apple's ballpark. They make and break the rules. Leave them alone.
You think 20 odd million people are going to throw their iPhones away because a handfull of developers threaten to go to the Zune-phone!?!
Blog releases like this are just link bait to advertise vapourware. If I were Apple I would announce and enforce a minimum 2 month ban on release post-approval to developers who publicly criticize their process.
That'll keep the interwebs focussed on real issues... like how many cameras the new iTablet is going to have!
I realize that, developers realize that and future buyers realize that...
__NOT__ a problem!
What I'm having a hard time understanding is how you seem as giddy as a schoolgirl with Apple having such total control over what Apps you can and cant run on your computer.... err.. iPhone... err... computer?
In this day and age I'm having a harder and harder time discerning the difference.
Dave