RE: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> But again, I would be very happy to be wrong on this. > > Anyone here know whether the App Store agreement is an exclusive one? AFAIK (and its gone through a host of Japanese lawyers Ive worked with), Apple isn't asking for exclusivity. But they are asking for specifics on the version that is s

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Some people are getting games accepted into the Mac App Store, and I'm pretty sure those don't have standard buttons and other controls. Maybe the concern is if you have a standard control that doesn't behave in a standard way? One thing I know that apps are rejected for is if they have PowerPC

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Miller wrote: Could you expand on the issue of non-standard GUI elements?... perhaps some examples of what is not acceptable? Hard to say specifically beyond those I cited earlier. There seems to be a subjective element to the App Store review process, so the precise expectations a

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Miller
Thanks, Richard. Could you expand on the issue of non-standard GUI elements?... perhaps some examples of what is not acceptable? If self-updating is not allowed, what is the easiest alternative? Or is this app store going to operate like the iPad store, where the OS always informs the user w

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richard Miller wrote: Could someone please list the (primary) issues developers need to pay attention to in order to make Mac apps compliant with the new store? Prohibited items include self-updating (even though iTunes itself does that), and non-standard GUI elements (even though iTunes itse

Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Miller
Could someone please list the (primary) issues developers need to pay attention to in order to make Mac apps compliant with the new store? I have a Mac app I've been selling for years. It uses a non-standard interface. It also auto-updates when it first starts. Is it problematic to simply sub