Dear Helmut,

Your application, iBattery Pro 1.0, is requiring unexpected additional time for review.   We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
iPhone Developer Program

As you can read in many other blog posts, this often happens when you complain and mention similar applications that have not been recjected. No I’m in the infinite review loop. Congratulation Apple, you just won another friend!

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It it wasn’t for business, I could laugh about this story, but Apple Inc. reviewers simply appear to mistake incompetence, ignorance and arbitrariness with that what they call “review process”.

So the hilarious iPhone Application Store review team has rejected my simple battery application for the second time now:

We’ve reviewed iBattery Pro and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it provides to the user potentially inaccurate diagnostic functionality for iPhone OS devices.  There is currently no publicly available infrastructure to support diagnostic analysis.

Since this is a well known standard text block (which documents that these guys are at least capable of copy/paste) I ask myself why the 10 other battery applications that are doing exactly the same thing (except of not having my gorgeous layout) have been approved. They all have in common that they are using the official and public available [UIDevice currentDevice].batteryLevel call (hm, did I read something on “no publicly available infrastructure”?).

Just to give you an idea of this “inaccurate” monster application, here’s a screenshot:

Battery Application Screenshot

Well, I don’t want to blame my competitors. It seems that they have been lucky or that Apple doesn’t like me. In fact I am thinking that I am being discriminated by Apple, but that’s another funny story…

Apple seems to have massive problems with the amount of applications that are being submitted since the release of iPhone OS 3.0. What I’ve heard is that they outsourced the whole review process and this is the result of it. Getting standard text blocks of people that aren’t in the position to review an application. I am very interested if there is anything else they use instead of furtune telling to get an app reviewed. The only thing you can do is to resubmit the application and pray that your are getting someone competent. For me it’s now the third time with the same app. It always takes days (or weeks) of waiting until the next surprise and that’s very embarrassing.

Hey reviewers: Even if it’s a small $0.99 application and maybe small potatoes for you: I have invested a lot of time, creativity and money in this little product. Please treat me in the same way I would treat a product of yours!

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