Company lifts veil on App Store practices in response to FCC
In a posting Friday to its Web site, Apple provided several intriguing details about its App Store approval processes, all in response to questions from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the rejection of Google Voice from the App Store.
The page, titled “Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions,” discusses the App Store process in general and responds specifically to questions asked of Apple by the FCC. Since the reported rejection of a Google Voice app was the motivation behind the questioning, much of the document focuses on that matter.
According to the posting, the company has—despite media reports—“not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it.” (In late July, a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that “Apple did not approve the Google Voice application”—which technically doesn’t say the company rejected it.)
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/142406/
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In a posting Friday to its Web site, Apple provided several intriguing details about its App Store approval processes, all in response to questions from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the rejection of Google Voice from the App Store.
The page, titled “Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions,” discusses the App Store process in general and responds specifically to questions asked of Apple by the FCC. Since the reported rejection of a Google Voice app was the motivation behind the questioning, much of the document focuses on that matter.
According to the posting, the company has—despite media reports—“not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it.” (In late July, a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that “Apple did not approve the Google Voice application”—which technically doesn’t say the company rejected it.)
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/142406/
