#Mac apps like pastebot mac#

If you define 'everybody' as the upper management of Apple and the short-term shareholders of Apple, I'd tend to agree with you. That would frankly be best for everybody.' Or will soon be when more apps start to do the same. 'My bet it with all the publicity, the app will be rejected anyway. I mean, I can wrap my mind around the internal logic of why Playboy Advances the Platform™, while a Project Gutenberg reader that can access the text of the Kama Sutra doesn't, but that puts us well into game console logic. They just don't happen to have much to do with the real and unwritten rules that govern the AppStoreReviewMonster's normal decision making process.)Īnd, even more obviously, if a developer has to worry about whether or not their app Advances the Platform™, then all bets truly are off. The entire reason the AppStoreReviewMonster exists is precisely because the company has made a policy decision not to have written rules. The problem, of course, is that if you have to worry about violating 'the spirit of the rules' rather than 'the letter of the rules', then you no longer have rules. 'They are clearly violating the spirit of the rule, and this kind of kludge reflects poorly on the platform.' IOS iOS 4 iOS Multitasking Pastebot Programming This makes the app more difficult to use and wastes the time of both the developers and the users. So, instead, you must create or buy a silent audio clip, put it in iTunes, sync it to your iPhone, and select it in Pastebot’s settings, all to work around Apple’s decision to forbid normal background processing. Apple rejected the app, saying that the music must be audible. They thoughtfully included a silent audio clip so that this kludge would be invisible to the user and not drain the battery.

Their solution is to use the multitasking service that lets apps play music in the background (via John Gruber).

#Mac apps like pastebot mac#

The developers of Pastebot wanted to run their app in the background to listen for updates from their companion Mac utility. (Apple’s own Mail app is exempt from this rule, of course.)

An application can run in the background to get updates from the GPS, but Apple won’t allow it to run in the background to get updates from IM, Twitter, or a mail server. IOS 4 includes seven multitasking services, but none of them are conducive to running a utility service in the background.