Just a quick note, I really do think Apple just didn’t realize what the app (msaremote) did. When I’d submitted the app there were no videos demonstrating it (though I did send them example clients, maybe they couldn’t figure it out). I”m going to resubmit the app sometime this week when I get a chance, with more documentation and links to the videos, and hopefully it will be approved this time – I’ve also added a bunch of buttons and sliders, so should have a bit more than ‘minimal functionality’ :P

On a slightly different note, I think the “It’s Apple’s App Store, they can do whatever they like, and have every right to reject apps they don’t like” attitude does make perfect sense, and I do agree with it. It is their app store, if they don’t wanna host and distribute my app, fair enough. BUT if they don’t wanna host my app, then they should bloody well let me host and distribute it through my own site! I’m not pissed off that Apple won’t allow my app on the app store, I’m pissed off that Apple won’t allow me to legally distribute my app to other people at all.

And to all those who kept suggesting cydia: for this particular app, it defeats the purpose. MSARemote was partially intended for people visiting installations/concerts/events etc. So they could download a free app, and participate. Limiting the participation to jailbroken phones only sucks.

P.S. what Andy’s done sounds awesome, can’t wait to try it out.

My point is, I expect that we will see some experiments just using the browser on all platforms. And you can imagine that gets especially interesting on gaming platforms, which have *truly* restrictive app processes. But even on something like the Android, on which is is very easy to load an app, you might still have something that worked fine in the browser — and then that single webpage could also work with other mobile devices with similar browsers.

The application itself is written to Apple’s specifications, it follows policies for the store, and he provided copious documentation of what it was. So to me, it’s the process that’s borked.

That said, I suspect if someone submitted something similar it might indeed get in, just because the handful of apps falling through the cracks seem to be doing so arbitrarily.

Has anyone considered packaging the iphone OSC client with a desktop-side visual demo so that the folks at apple see a “complete package” that has purpose and novelty for the end-user? The real gold would still be sending OSC to whatever you want by run software other than the demo. But to get it into the app store, include a demo so they see what it’s about.

This APP ROCKS!!!