Apple rejects Mad artist's iPhone caricature app

Apple rejects Mad artist's iPhone caricature app As documented in Tom Richmond, who wrote about his app's rejection on his personal blog, his app--dubbed Bobble Rep-111th Congress Edition--in no way probably has been construed as objectionable.

Richmond mentioned that the main focus within the app would have build a "database with the people in us Congress which allowed anyone to find the names and speak to information of their own senators and congressional representative either via Postal code or utilizing the iPhone's GPS location services." Instead of take advantage of politicians' individual portraits, the app depicts each senator and representative in caricature form, which Richmond drew himself. All in all, the app features 540 caricatures within the politicians.

Using the app, each politician's head is about in one of 12 bodies. When iPhone owners shake their phone or flick the politician's head with the finger, their scalp bobbles around. As Richmond referred to, the feature was "just a novelty, while the real objecive of the app is going to be database that permits you to figure out who your representatives in Washington are and ways to contact them."

After Apple's vetting process, however, Richmond additionally the others participating in developing the app learned totally rejected.

"Thank you for submitting Bobble Rep - 111th Congress Edition in the App Store," the rejection letter from Apple read. "We've reviewed Bobble Rep - 111th Congress Edition and determined that any of us cannot post this version with the iPhone application for the App Store since contains content that ridicules politicians and it's also in violation of Section 3.3.14 inside the iPhone Developer nexus 4 wallet case Program License Agreement."

Another shot of Richmonds iPhone app.

(Credit:Tom Richmond)

Section 3.3.14 for the license agreement says that apps tend to be rejected "if they contain content or materials of any sort (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple's reasonable judgment could be found objectionable, in particular, materials that one can considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory."

Apple didn't provide anylonger particularly why the app was rejected. This also hasn't immediately replied to request comment.

In his own defense, Richmond asserted that Apple's ruling is "truly ridiculous." He wrote on his blog the fact that the "caricatures aren't mean or very exaggerated. Might simple, fun nexus 4 case bumper cartoon likenesses for the politicians and therefore the purpose of the app can be described as informational database. Just about every editorial commentary involved in the slightest degree."

Then, like numerous developers who received rejection notices in earlier times for questionable reasons, Richmond declared that Apple "should arrive at task over its ludicrous and inconsistent app approval policies."

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