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Steve Jobs Phones Developer of Rejected iPad Application

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Economy for iPad
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' responses to customer emails are well-known and given great attention as official "from the horse's mouth" statements regarding Apple's products and plans, despite the fact that many of his statements are brief and vague enough to give away little information. According to The Seattle Times, however, Jobs has gone a step further and telephoned a developer who wrote him an email after having his iPad application rejected from the App Store for using a private application programming interface (API).
Frustrated by Apple's rejection of his iPad app, Seattle developer Ram Arumugam e-mailed Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Two hours later, he picked up a phone call and heard: "Ram, this is Steve." Jobs was on the other end.

The two talked about Arumugam's app, called "Economy for iPad," and why it was rejected by Apple.
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Arumugam, a former Microsoft employee now heading up a company developing iOS applications, and Jobs discussed the developer's usage of a private API to deal with what Arumugam considered to be a bug in the behavior of the iPad's on-screen keyboard. At the conclusion of the discussion, Arumugam agreed to remove the private API, and Economy for iPad was quickly accepted into the App Store.

Jobs' phone call is not the first time an Apple executive has directly intervened in the App Store review process, as senior vice president Phil Schiller has been known to reply via email and telephone in rare cases related to App Store issues.

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Merthyrboy

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Does Steve do much at apple anymore? No wonder they only pay him a dollar a year he's just answering his email :p
 
milbournosphere

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Good customer service, I guess, but I still disagree with the walled-garden stance that Apple is taking towards their app store. Really, though, the developer shouldn't have been surprised about the rejection, as the use of custom API's is plainly stated in the submission guidelines as being not allowed.
 
kdarling

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The trouble with a CEO responding to something like this is that they usually don't know the topic.

Unlike someone like Gates, Jobs isn't a programmer. Never was.

If Jobs actually ever tried to develop iPhone / iPad apps, he might've had a quite different perspective. Or not.
 
michial

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milbournosphere said:
Good customer service, I guess, but I still disagree with the walled-garden stance that Apple is taking towards their app store. Really, though, the developer shouldn't have been surprised about the rejection, as the use of custom API's is plainly stated in the submission guidelines as being not allowed.
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The micro-managing Steve does probably drives many in the company nutz. While I agree he is very smart and has great concepts, and I love apple products, with all respect the guy "comes across" as a complete ego maniac control freak.
 
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RTee

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kdarling said:
The trouble with a CEO responding to something like this is that they usually don't know the topic.

Unlike someone like Gates, Jobs isn't a programmer. Never was.

If Jobs actually ever tried to develop iPhone / iPad apps, he might've had a quite different perspective. Or not.
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What you think Steve doesn't know what his talking about? I'm pretty sure he does programmer or not!
 
dlewis23

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That sure was nice of him. I've gotten a call from a few people at Apple before about apps I've submitted.

One time a guy left a message and his name was Steve, but sadly his last name didn't start with a J. :(
 
Popeye206

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Wow... I'm impressed. Hat's off to Jobs for going that extra mile.

I'm really surprised at some of the comments by the forum people... how could you see this as a bad thing in any shape or form? It's impressive when a CEO... especially someone the caliper of SJ's is willing to answer a flame mail in person on the phone and explain the companies position. That's is amazing that Steve cares enough to address the concern directly.
 
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milbournosphere said:
"Some say that he wears his turtlenecks to bed at night, and that he is incapable of sending emails longer than one sentence in length. All we know is, he's called The Steve."
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Maybe I have watched too many Steve annoucement videos but he seems to only own one black turtleneck sweater.


Has anyone else noticed that?
 
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fishmoose

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Peter.Howard said:
Maybe I have watched too many Steve annoucement videos but he seems to only own one black turtleneck sweater.


Has anyone else noticed that?
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I remember reading somewhere that he doesn't care about how he looks so he wears the same clothes each day. Apparently he has many of those turtlenecks but they are the same sweater.
 
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