Daring Fireball: Rob Rhyne on Briefs’s Rejection From the App Store

Alas, Briefs was rejected. Rhyne suspects it is a misunderstanding — that the App Store reviewers, upon seeing what Briefs does, assumed it contains its own interpreter or otherwise executes arbitrary downloaded code. It does not. This one truly deserves reconsideration, Apple.

Does it really comply with the spirit of the App Store guidelines? Apple doesn’t seem to like third-party development tools in any way, shape, or form. They might be worried that this prototyping app will make it to the App Store and never get updated until iPhone OS 12, hindering developers that depend on it (though, admittedly, I don’t know enough about iPhone programming to know if developers can depend on it or not).

Y’know, Apple could save themselves a lot of bad press by giving explanations once in a while…