HELP! My App rejected -.-

[DevBoyLars]

Hi there,
I build an App for a hairdresser, which tells the user some information about the business and gives the user the feature to take a date for a haircut and call one of the stores.

Now Apple rejected this App with the following information:

2.13

We found that your app provides a limited set of features and functionality, and focuses primarily on marketing or promoting your business, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

We encourage you to review your app concept and evaluate whether you can incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the Guidelines.

What did I wrong? I think to make a date or call a store are features -.-

[Mark]

Hi,

- automatically save the appointment in the calendar
- make a picture of the client and send it to the hair dresser's shop
- use location services to automatically find the closest hair dresser

Just to name a few.

Kind regards,

Mark

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Hi,

You say the App does this: "and call one of the stores" - do you mean it calls a 'store' from a specific chain of hairdressers ?, or any hairdresser - big or small ?

If it's only working with a specific chain then it's got limited use to people who are interested in using that chain of hairdressers - therefore it's only promoting that chain too.

Either you need to alter the name and description to cover only that chain, or add functionality that will work in a generic way with many hairdressers.

Also make sure that you don't try releasing it worldwide - unless your App can definitely handle being used in Peru/Thailand/South Africa/Iceland/Iowa/etc - ie. really out of the way places There are too many people who release USA-centric Apps to parts of the world that have no connection with the USA or the language (Replace USA in last sentence with China/Russia/Sweden/Other...) for example.

Cheers,
Dave

[DevBoyLars]

Hi Dave,
it can call the two stores of this hairdresser.

The description to this App is specially for this chain.

I can't understand, why there are so many other Apps in the AppStore, which doesn't do more, as this App -.-

And for sure, it is only selected for our country

[Mark]

Look at my reply. It should give you a clue.
Also, many apps are from before Apple made its admission policy stricter.

Mark

[DevBoyLars]

Hi Mark,
thank you. That sound good!

Can LiveCode save an appointment into a calendar like iCal (OSC Server) or does I need to code a Desktop-App for that, too?

[Mark]

Hi,

I think you need an external for this. I don't know of such an external. It would have to be created. You could try to implement the location services first. That's easier, but I don't know if it is enough for Apple.

Best,

Mark

[DevBoyLars]

Does the location-thing only works with mergMK?

Or can LiveCode this without any extra plug-ins? And does the App needs to create a route or just show the nearest store with a pin?

And if LiveCode needs a plug-in for location-services, how can I handle it on Android-Devices?

[Dixie]

devBoyLars...

Monte Goulding's mergMK mapping external is excellent... it would be even better if it allowed for plotting the route and directions. You could also turn to google for you mapping requirements. I have attached a stack that will run a google map in the iphone simulator and on the iphone...

it might help to get you started... You can pot route and get the direction as well, have a look at the google maps api...

hope it helps...

Dixie

[DevBoyLars]

Hi Dixie,
thank you. So this means I just would call the browser for Google-Maps instead any core-features?

Does this also works on Android-devices?