So you’ve got an covering that isn’t ONLY acquirable on the iPhone – it could be on Android, WebOS, WinMo, BlackBerry and another platforms. In your “description” you haw poverty to permit users know, and heck, maybe you got an honor or something in one of the platforms and poverty to exhibit users you’re creation is noteworthy. Sound fair? Not according to Steve Jobs.

If it’s Android you poverty to name you meliorate conceive again. Flash Of Genius, developers of an app titled SAT Vocab 2.2, have had the mass statement in the iPhone App Store:

They hit meet posted (on their blog) a honor they conventional from Apple suggesting they vanish the name of Google Android or additional hit their app distant from the App Store:

Dear Flash of Genius, LLC,

Thank you for submitting Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 to the App Store.  During our analyse of your application, we institute that your covering contains incongruous or extraneous papers aggregation in the Application Description and/or Release Notes sections.

Providing forthcoming papers sympathy plans or another generalized papers references are not germane in the environment of the iPhone App Store.  While your covering has not been rejected, it would be pertinent  to vanish “Finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge!”  from the Application Description [Emphasis added].

Please index into iTunes Connect to attain pertinent changes to the Application Description today to refrain an gap in the availability of Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 on the iPhone App Store.

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

Apple definitely has the correct to do this… it meet seems… too defensive. Doesn’t it attain them seem afraid of Google and Android? Perhaps they should be! Meanwhile Flash Of Genius are meet wondering how they crapper investment their success on Android to exhibit iPhone users they should provide the code a shot!

I’m seriously distrustful Google cares whether or not you name Apple or some another competitors in the Android Market. Do some the heck you want!

You crapper verify our description… but you cannot take… OUR FREEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[Via Gizmodo]