#App Store
3 posts- 3 min
The words I couldn't write — hunting down a subtitle
The first subtitle read "Control your Mac from iPhone." App Review's objection was the way it used the word iPhone. Just swap the words — except the same words were living in the site's headline, in the social-share image, and in the opening seconds of the very video I'd filmed for review. Changing words, it turned out, was not a matter of fixing one place.
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On the shelf in a week — the unglamorous paperwork of shipping a second app
STIL.TOON went from kickoff to the App Store in a week. But the thing that stopped review at the end wasn't a bug in the code. A bank account, tax forms, a contract to sign — shipping an app takes preparation that isn't digital at all. Darkroom Notes, Season 2, the finale.
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Rejected three times, approved on the fourth — a record of App Store review
STIL. was rejected three times by App Store review. Permissions, payments, and finally the robustness of the app itself. Each time: deflate a little, fix the cause, submit again. The grittiest record of finally getting through on the fourth try. The fifth frame of the series.