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Apple Set to Approve 'Readability' for Inclusion in App Store?

Popeye206 said:
First, we DON'T know the whole story... only what we read here and that was a lot of speculation. Second... even if Apple reversed their decision, that's a good thing.
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Seriously.

Some random employee may have thought the rules said something and rejected the App. Apple then clarified the rules and the App was resubmitted.

Anything could have happened.

The stupid part of all of this are the developers who think they need to go on some anti Apple PR campaign before the issue can be resolved. Makes them look like idiots to people who follow all of it but the negative PR will stick to Apple even if its not appropriate.
 
manu chao said:
No, the rules overall are not too confusing (only somewhat). What is confusing is so many of these rules are not enforced, such that it is hard to know what to expect actually. Case in point, rule 12.2 and the Skype app:
"Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected."
The Skype app uses a system other than IAP to purchase Skype Credit and thus functionality and services, yet it has co-existed with this rule for quite some time.
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You act like Steve Jobs is going one by one and approving or rejecting each of the billion apps submitted to the App store.

Frankly it is not surprising that some mistakes occur between each app reviewer and the fact that Apple has a mechanism to go back and re review apps shows they are addressing that problem.
 
fishmoose said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; sv-se) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

The premise is simple, don't break Apple's rules and you won't get rejected. If a mistake is made (humans work at Apple) Apple tends to deal with it fairly quickly. Sounds fair to me.
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Just like when Google Voice was stuck in limbo for over a year until it was approved? ;)
 
Readability: The app that cheats web publishers out of their income so that the Readability people can make their income selling an app that cheats web publishers out of their income...

Hmm... So if Readability succeeds it will destroy web publishing. Then there won't be any ad supported free web content. Then Readability won't be needed by those people who don't want to help the web publishers they want to read.

Great business model.

Idiots.
 
Update: According to Readability they have not spoken with Apple, and they have no idea if they will approve it.
 
ptysell said:
You act like Steve Jobs is going one by one and approving or rejecting each of the billion apps submitted to the App store.

Frankly it is not surprising that some mistakes occur between each app reviewer and the fact that Apple has a mechanism to go back and re review apps shows they are addressing that problem.
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The Skype app is hardly a small minor app they just have not got around to in inspecting again after publishing their rules. Whoever wrote 12.2 must have had the Skype app on its mind while writing the rule and yet the apparent conflict was intentionally ignored for the good part of a year.
 
pubwvj said:
Readability: The app that cheats web publishers out of their income so that the Readability people can make their income selling an app that cheats web publishers out of their income...

Hmm... So if Readability succeeds it will destroy web publishing. Then there won't be any ad supported free web content. Then Readability won't be needed by those people who don't want to help the web publishers they want to read.

Great business model.

Idiots.
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How exactly is it cheating?

And as far as the update, hopefully they don't post another open complaint after it is rejected again (hopefully it isn't rejected but they seem to just be appealing at this point...something they should have done from the start).
 
pubwvj said:
Readability: The app that cheats web publishers out of their income so that the Readability people can make their income selling an app that cheats web publishers out of their income...
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The Readability app has concluded a contract with the publishers (ie, the publishers agreed to it) and all participating publishers will get 70% of Readability's revenue.
How can Readability 'cheat web publishers' if said web publishers have agreed in a written contract to its business model?
 
manu chao said:
How can Readability 'cheat web publishers' if said web publishers have agreed in a written contract to its business model?
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Readability works on any site, not just ones that the publishers have agreed to the model. Still, it's better than Safari's Reader feature, which doesn't give sites anything.
 
Google Reader?

Love the idea, but is it just me or is this thing missing a good way to discover the content. It seems just like a copy of instapaper that pays the content providers. Is there any way to get some sort of google reader sync working with this?
 
rickshill said:
Love the idea, but is it just me or is this thing missing a good way to discover the content. It seems just like a copy of instapaper that pays the content providers. Is there any way to get some sort of google reader sync working with this?
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It is actually a special build of Instapaper. Instapaper's founder, Marco Arment confirmed on his and Dan Benjamin's podcast Build And Analyze that he is involved with Readability and he was the one whom submitted the app.
 
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