iSupplement Lite – Not Approved

Posted by on Feb 23, 2011 in iOS Apps | 0 comments

I just received the email today from Apple explaining why iSupplement Lite was not approved. I’ll paste the email:

Hello Chris,

Thank you for submitting iSupplement Lite to the App Store.

We’ve completed the review your app but cannot post this version to the App Store because it provides a reduced feature set and it up-sells to a separate, more feature-rich version. This behavior is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines <https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html>:

2.9     Apps that are “beta”, “demo”, “trial”, or “test” versions will be rejected

We have included additional details below to help explain the issue and hope you’ll consider revising and resubmitting your application.

The Add feature up-sells to the full version.

You may wish to consider using In App Purchase to automatically enable other application features to create a seamless, in app experience for your users. Rather than having them find, purchase, and download your other application from the App Store, you will provide a better experience from both a selling & purchasing perspective using the In App Purchase API.

You can learn more about In App Purchase in the App Store Quick Reference: Getting Started with In App Purchase on iOS <http://developer.apple.com/news/ios/pdf/in_app_purchase.pdf>.

For development information or assistance, try the resources on the iOS Dev Center <http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action>. Or, for specific, discrete, code-level questions, you may wish to consult Apple Developer Technical Support at: <http://developer.apple.com/support/resources/technicalsupport/>. To ensure the Developer Technical Support engineers can best help you, please be sure to include any crash logs, screenshots, or steps to reproduce any issues you are encounter.

If you have any questions about this information, or would like to discuss it further, please feel free to reply to this email.

To appeal this review, please submit a request to the App Review Board at <http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/contact.html>.

We look forward to reviewing your revised app.

Best Regards,

App Review Team

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There seems to be a simple enough fix but I haven’t decided whether or not I will take that path. The main issue is that I modified that Add Pill button to display a UIAlertView explaining that this is a lite version and new pills can’t be added. The simple fix is to leave the ‘default’ entry and do a simple check to see how many pills there are. If there is more than 1 the button is disabled, but if you delete the default you can add a new pill. Now I that I think about it the original lite version had a flaw anyway, what if a user deletes the default entry? How will they add a new one if a UIAlertView is displayed. I think I will go modify the Lite version and resubmit it.
After reading the  comments from the readers I have decided to start working on a game project. It will take some time and I am still figuring out how I will get my hands on decent graphics, sounds, etc. I will keep the blog updated.

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