Apple doesn’t want developers creating digital scale apps for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus!
In a recent post on Medium, dev Ryan McLeod says he and his friends created a digital scale app that worked using Apple’s new 3D Touch pressure-sensing feature.
Called Gravity, they submitted it to the App Store, only to have it rejected for “having a misleading description.” To show the app in action, the team then submitted a video to Apple, but were told that “the concept of a scale app was not appropriate for the App Store.”
No reason was given beyond this. Apple is well-known for its subjective, and sometimes harsh, App Store decision-making process. In terms of digital scale apps, the company’s refusal to accept them could be over concerns that people will damage their devices by placing things on the screens, or the possibility that digital scale apps may be used for weighing drugs.
Earlier this week, I reported on an app called Plum-O-Meter, which can weigh small objects — although it’s only available for jailbroken iPhones.
“We have a strong respect for the subjective process Apple uses to maintain a selection of high quality apps,” McLeod notes on Medium. “But [we] do hope for a day when Gravity can be one of the hand-picked, who-knew-a-phone-could-do-that-apps anyone can download on the App Store and have in their pocket.”
I guess they’ll have to weight see. Ba-doom-tish.
Source: Medium
Via: The Verge
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
8 responses to “Apple: Quit weighing things on your iPhone 6s”
I can see Apple rejecting that.
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“In terms of digital scale apps, the company’s refusal to accept the could be over concerns that people will damage their devices by placing things on the screens, or the possibility that digital scale apps may be used for weighing drugs.”
I think the first part of this statement is very reasonable. However the jump to “used for weighing drugs” seems a bit far-fetched.
Depends on how much weight you put on the phone. I’d imagine anything as heavy as a couple of bricks would crack the glass.
I imagine to prevent people from breaking the glass by putting something heavy on it
Absolutely. We all know there will be idiots who will do exactly that and then come whining to the genius bar about their screens cracking spontaneously (there’s no evidence of impact, right?) then post all sorts of negative tweets about how Apple doesn’t stand by their product.
Drugs
I see it as being that Apple is trying to keep people from damaging their screens but also being seen as complicit or liable for the accuracy of that measurement. People look for reasons to sue and saying something is “14.56933 grams” and being off when someone was “relying” on that “precision” from their phone could lead to issues. Can you imagine “weightgate” coming up when people say it’s off and compare its measurements against NIST standards?