Rememberthat analog clock iPad app Apple rejectedfor “ suffer limited functionality , ” despite plenty of apps like it already in the App Store ? Apple double back , unbidden , and approved it .
To recapitulation : Isaiah Carew , indie developer behindYourHead Software , want to use his iPad as a clock instead of letting it sit idly around , twiddling its thumb . Underwhelmed by the iPad alfileria already in the store , he did what any enterprising developer would and rolled his own . Apple pooh-pooh Carew ’s first submission of Wall Clock for “ accept modified functionality , ” so he append a few options and doo - dads , resubmitted , and got shot down again . Carew was content to let his app rest in rejection oblivion , but Apple transfer its brain .
Carew never update Wall Clock for a third effort , but hereportsthat Apple called Monday to say that the company would “ have another expression . ” Within a daytime , the previously rejected 2nd translation of Wall Clock is now available on the App Store . Carew say that the Apple spokesperson he speak with offered absolutely no explanation for the change of heart . “ I ask what had changed , ” Carew toldMacworld . “ She would n’t say , but then postulate if I was still concerned in hold it refresh . I said ‘ sure . ’ and that was that . ”
Of course , this is neither the first nor the highest visibility of Apple ’s bizarre app rejection story . lately , for illustration , Appleinitially rejecteda Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoonist ’s iPhone app , only to approve it after , after the media got tip of it . But Carew ’s taradiddle is interesting because he has n’t make headway a Pulitzer Prize , and he did n’t even push the matter with Apple . He let the app go , Macworldand others get across it , and that seemed to be it . But here we are , three weeks after the 2nd rejection , and Apple has O.K. it without account .
Thomas Carew brushes off Apple ’s schizoid App Store approval process in his post . “ Hey , I can in conclusion have the clock I was after from the starting time , ” he said . Indeed , Wall Clock for iPad is in the App Store for $ 1 . “ So , I ’m middling well-chosen about that . ”
