How Yelp May Have Further Harmed The App Store Approval Process

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/how-yelp-may-have-further-harmed-the-app-store-approval-process-with-its-easter-egg/

by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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alex_c• 17 years ago

Sure, cause Yelp is the first app to include hidden features or use undocumented API calls. Please.

Reminded me of this post:

http://steveblank.com/2009/08/24/the-end-of-innocence/

aditya• 17 years ago

And yet, Apple hasn't pulled the app from the app store or said anything negative about it at all. He's just making noise because he runs an AR startup and didn't think of sneaking AR into his app and Yelp did.

anigbrowl• 17 years ago

'sneaking' being the operative word. Obviously the writer has skin in the game (and this is acknowledged up front), but the real issue here is that Yelp is only getting away with this because they're a very established player with a powerful brand that can afford to take the risk of defying Apple.

Mr Galligan is working for a little nothing company that would probably just receive a shrug here on HN if they did the same thing. By observing the terms of their development agreement in good faith, their business model has now suffered relative to the competition. I have no idea whether his startup's ideas/technology are worse, the same, or better, but we're that much less likely to find out now because a more established competitor has (apparently) got away with ignoring the terms of that same agreement because they can.

Good thing Yelp wasn't offering voicemail, eh?

jfoutz• 17 years ago

apparently apple thinks grep is is for sissies.

gila• 17 years ago

Isn't this a good thing, if it doesn't get pulled AR apps will have to have different reasoning for being rejected.

tumult• 17 years ago

Ahh, your comment is so innocent, so pure. It's cute, even.

How Yelp May Have Further Harmed The App Store Approval Process

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