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Three months ago, I submitted an update to iLaugh and iLaugh Lite, numbered 1.1.1 that fixed many bugs but didn’t change anything to the functionality of the app.

Today, after three whole months in review (seriously, I’m not making this up!), they decided to finally tackle the issue and issue me a rejection for no other reason other than “because we said so.”

See for yourself.

Please note, this is for iLaugh 1.1.1. iLaugh 2.0 is still in review, as a new application, and there’s no reason it should be rejected. In fact, the premium edition has already been approved and is already live on the App Store.

Speaking of iLaugh 2.0 – the first public screenshot ever:

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App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | Stoth mutters
June 12th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh application. This kind of rejection is a gamechanger. Devs have complained that […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 6:59 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | iPhone Firmware says
June 12th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | HyipLife.com pronounces
June 12th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | oQlz Blog spews
June 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | Touch the Apple utters
June 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | RQDC shrieks
June 12th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

‘Sole Discretion’ | GeekStream Mac affirms
June 12th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

[…] a hint as to the reason. One particularly absurd instance of this was rejecting version 1.1.1 of Kenneth Ballenegger’s iLaugh — a minor bug fix upgrade of an app already in the store.  ?  Read the whole […]

‘Sole Discretion’ | dv8-designs shrieks
June 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

[…] a hint as to the reason. One particularly absurd instance of this was rejecting version 1.1.1 of Kenneth Ballenegger’s iLaugh — a minor bug fix upgrade of an app already in the store. […]

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June 12th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | Techdare shrieks
June 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | The gadgets spews
June 13th, 2009 at 2:00 am

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | IPHONE NEWS moans
June 13th, 2009 at 5:25 am

[…] providing some essential think or feedback. TUAW reverend Kenneth Ballenegger conventional the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

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June 13th, 2009 at 7:06 am

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

Apple’s Crappy New Way of Rejecting App Store Applications | Touch Podium mutters
June 13th, 2009 at 7:13 am

[…] The letter posted in image form above, was published from a TUAW reader by the name of Kenneth Ballenegger. […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | iPhone 3G Tricks thinks aloud
June 13th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

Hortense screams
June 13th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Your selling an interface to other peoples content you’ve collected and junking up the app store with lite versions of that interface. I wish apple would have the balls to reject more of this crap, just because your crap has a nicer looking interface than the other app store crap doesn’t mean it smells better it’s still crap

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | Macbook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac, Apple News and Shopping shrieks
June 13th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

App Store Lessons: the game changer rejection | Design Website pronounces
June 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

[…] without providing any substantive reason or feedback. TUAW reader Kenneth Ballenegger received the following rejection notice for his iLaugh […]

null is not an object » Blog Archive » PhoneGap IPhone App Approval screams
June 14th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

[…] That is just my thoughts on the issue, whether or not that is the *real* reason that Apple is rejecting PhoneGap apps we may never know but that is certainly one reason that they would do it I think. It could just be because they feel like it… […]

lar3ry murmurs
June 14th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

It’s interesting that some people will just say “this is just a collection of jokes, so it obviously should be rejected.” That’s all well and good, IF THAT WAS THE REASON. We have no idea why this person at Apple rejected the application, and if you can really read the mind of the person that rejected the app, then all power to you.

If, on the other hand, you cannot read the mind of that person, then you are simply standing on your own little holier-than-thou soapbox, espousing your own interpretations of things you have no knowledge about, making noise no more useful than that produced by objects hitting an empty barrel.

Throwing away such “noise,” the matter remains. If a developer isn’t told why his or her app is rejected, then how can that developer make changes to make the app better? How can the developer appeal such a ruling if the content of the ruling is beyond the developer’s “need to know?”

How do we know that the App Store approver didn’t just flip a coin and say, “Heads, I’ll allow it; tails, I’ll reject it?”

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June 27th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

[…] it the bad press the App Store had gotten here or here or here that turned it around? I guess we’ll never […]

AppleRejectionProccess mouthes
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:22 am

Apple’s Rejection Process is what it should be called, not approval process. I am so sick of my hard work and time getting rejected over and over.

Im ditching ios, going over to the Android platform, and im taking my friends, family, customers and clients with me.

You have wasted my time, taken my money, insulted me and now you have lost another developer for your platform. I wont ever code for another apple product ever again.

Good luck with that jobs.

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