Apple Rejecting Apps Due To 'Limited Utility'

Apple's checking methods and standards have been brought into question several times in the past with the acceptance and subsequent removal of apps that are widely accepted as either harmless or so bad that they never should have made it into the app store in the first place. One developer hoping to get his slightly offensive and tasteless but fairly harmless app Pull My Finger was (not surprisingly) rejected, but the reason they gave was an unusual one.

The rejection letter reads:

"Hello Developer,

We've reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store.

It may be very appropriate to share with friends and family, and we recommend you review the Ad Hoc method on the Distribution tab of the iPhone Developer Portal for details on distributing this application among a small group of people of your choosing.

Regards,

Victor Wang
Worldwide Developer Relations
Apple, Inc."

The developer also included a brief video of the app in action.

While this is probably one of the least useful apps one can imagine, number one apps like Koi Pond are probably equally useless, but that doesn't mean it's a bad app. We agree that this is kinda lame and aren't too sad to see it not make it in, but their reason doesn't fit. It makes me wonder if it was simply a canned excuse. I also wonder just how carefully they

[via MacRumors]