Comments on: A Well-Timed Letter of Rejection

By: online stock trading advice

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By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:47:03 +0000

when i see hourglass, i thinking “oh snap… my device is going to crash!”. whenever i look at watch ads, the minute and hour hand is usually set around to 3:45. also, maybe you can add a tiny nob on the right side to signify the bezel.

By: Migweld

Migweld — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:24:25 +0000

Perhaps substitute the analog clock for a digital one?

By: Benga

Benga — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:10:09 +0000

It should be okay if you set the time to something different and perhaps have the shorter handing in a dotted pattern, instead of a straight line.

Just a thought
Benga creative

By: shoots

shoots — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:32:41 +0000

just point it to four o’clock instead.

By: UWS_C!@

UWS_C!@ — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:11:10 +0000

Don’t forget that the approval process may be tedious, but they do protect us from malicious software.

But on the other hand an image that clearly has nothing to do with Recent/History is clearly B.S.

By: SL

SL — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:34:47 +0000

Not sure if anyone will read this – but being a longtime Swatch watch fanatic (and having read through a lot of catalogs), I remember that a common clock time displayed when illustrating clocks/watches/time is 10:10 – Would changing the hands position on your icon work?

By: x-ray

x-ray — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:42:08 +0000

I think an hourglass would be very nice.

Another thing about the icons: Is it possible to redesign the typography icon? In my opinion characters without serifs are more consistent to the other category icons ;-)

By: Kevin Bomberry

Kevin Bomberry — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:58:35 +0000

Hey Mark, we had the same issue over at Able Pear Software when we used their “camera” icon (used for the photo picker) to take a screenshot of the screen… Same type of message was received from us by Apple. We changed it to a camera shutter icon and the app was approved within a week after the (new) submission.

It’s a tricky game when playing with iconographic representations, as you know now, especially when a device as a set of icons with a understood function. And Apple covers all of this in their docs – which I found out later (as was the case with our using their “camera” icon for the screenshot).

Now I stay clear of all things Apple-iconic when designing icons… just to be safe. (_)

By: ikangai

ikangai — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:06:45 +0000

I’m a developer who had the pleasure of receiving a auto-generated apple rejection email. My bluetooth data sharing app (iSENDu – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-9pN9E93E) was rejected because of trademark infringement (according to Apple). I used two rectangles to represent an iPhone (see http://www.ikangai.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/mainscreen.png) which was according to Apple looking way too much like an iPhone. This is very strange, since I wrote an app for the iPhone to share data with other iPhones… So what would be more obvious than to use a symbol that represents an iPhone in the app? After all, I didn’t want to confuse the user ;-). I think that Apple would agree that using a different symbol like – say a shoe or a pink arrow – to represent an iPhone in an iPhone app could lead to great controversy ;-)…
However, I had no choice as to completely redesigned the app. And now? Well, I’m still waiting for an answer of Apple…