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Apple Allows 'Drafts' App to Reinstate Notification Center Widget
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At least Apple is reversing it's policies. If they can do this then there is no telling on what it can mean for future apps.
Exactly. I would pay $15 for Launcher, even though I am using Quick Tap currently, but it's still not as good as Launcher looked to be
I love Quick-tap but it has a few bugs and is missing a few features.
It does seem they are creating two great features (easily change the order of the actions, create your own icons) which Launcher also had. The features will be included in the new Quick-Tap version soon to be released and let's hope they fix the GPS refresh bug (sometimes the widget is blank).
I'm however very curious if this fix will be approved by Apple or if this means the end of Quick-Tap in the App Store if the website is official. It's not their official website.
What will it mean if Apple will approve this update? Can Cromulent Labs (Greg Gardner) from Launcher again submit their widget?
Launcher recently tried to submit Launcher Standalone app (without widget feature) again but was rejected (again). Although there is still Launch Center Pro in the App Store (app, not widget features) which is even recently featured by Apple and also others (Launch+, iLaunch Free) aside from the Quick-Tap widget, GestLaunch + Widget and Quickiee.
What will happen then with Launcher, Paste+, TaptoShare, Favorites widget? These were all removed by Apple. When i read the blog posting from the developer of Launcher that chance seems very small.
So they have submitted the update to Apple and are waiting upon approval? I certainly hope that the update is approved, because those new features will make the app quite a bit better.
Myself I'd very much like to see Paste+ come back, although with the new Workflows app it's much less necessary. Fortunately I bought it as part of the bundle before it was removed.
I don't know the exact details of features that Paste+ provides (or provided) but there are a few other clipboard type of apps with widgets that might still be around, like Clips or Heapo.
Paste+ got taken down most likely because it let you post to Evernote, CloudApp, etc within the widget.
Here's another app that Apple forced the developer to remove functionality only to later reverse course. It was a keyboard extension that also had a calculator. The developer was told that "completing calculations" was not an appropriate use of app extensions. WTF? Tim needs to put app review under someone who actually understands the features announced at WWDC. Obviously the current app review team doesn't.
http://www.cultofmac.com/306819/apple-forces-nintype-drop-one-ios-keyboards-signature-features/
http://www.cultofmac.com/306819/apple-forces-nintype-drop-one-ios-keyboards-signature-features/
It's useful for quickly pasting copied content. For example, I can copy a selected piece of text from say, Safari, then pull down the notifications shade and paste the clipboard to a new note in Drafts using the widget. This launches the Drafts app as well.
Faster then switching to Drafts (either by first minimising to the home screen, or multitasking), and pasting the info in.
Note - I know you can share to Drafts from Safari using the share sheet extensions. You get my point.
I don't use this feature though, as I am using "Clips" app for clipboard management, but you do save a tap or two by using the widget.
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Notes is "good enough" when all you need to do is take notes and keep them within the Notes app.
Draft's strength comes from the export actions you can take with the notes. For example, there are actions to export your notes as a list of reminders (I bought Drafts primarily for this purpose). You can create shortcuts to email them to a predetermined account, export as markdown, or even create custom workflows if you are adventurous enough.
It also comes with some nice touches, like launching with a new blank note so you are always ready to take a new note.
Quick - Tap has been pulled from the app store
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Quick - Tap has been pulled from the app store
Apple, you deserve nothing less than the middle finger
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Quick - Tap has been pulled from the app store
Apple, you deserve nothing less than the middle finger
The same way Apple introduced apps and app reviews originally and had some back and forth review decisions in the earlier days. It's a process and new rules get refined and updated especially in their earlier days. Fairly normal and not unexpected part of the process.
If this is normal than I think Cook needs to establish a new normal. Approving apps, rejecting them and then reversing the rejection is just embarrassing. It makes it look like Apple doesn't have its act together or different parts of the organization aren't working together. I thought Cook's Apple was all about collaboration.
I have this nervous feeling that some at Apple have this RDF thinking that no matter what developers will always develop iOS first so they can, in a sense, take advantage of developers and developers will just put up with it.
Happened like that in the earlier days when guidelines were new and getting refined. As well as when something new would come around, like in this case. Hasn't been an embarrassment or some sort of a fail as the App Store and Apple and developers have been just fine and flourishing.
Really? What's flourishing besides fremium apps? How many indie developers will tell you they're flouishing on the App Store?
Seems to me the growth of the store is due more to candy crush like fremium apps. Look at the top grossing apps on the App Store. Most of them are fremium games.
No but the top grossing apps appears to be mostly fremium games. So I'm skeptical about how well indie developers do on the App Store. I think they'd do better if App Store search wasn't so crappy and if developer guidelines weren't so opaque (which seems to be for the benefit of Apple, not developers). Don't give developers any reason to go Android first/only.