In Apples world, an app can be inappropriate one day, but acceptable the next.
We also contacted Apple to ask for a comment on the matter but have not received a response.
Specifically, your app name and icon include references to controlled substances, pills.
Apple has featured Amphetamine in its Mac App Store Story.Screenshot: Apple
The representative then brought up App StoreGuideline 1.4.3, which pertains to safety and physical harm.
Apps that encourage minors to consume any of these substances will be rejected.
Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for licensed pharmacies) isnt allowed.
If this is all sounding a bit wild to you, thats because it is.
Apple was also not applying its guidelines fairly and consistently, Gustafson argued in his Github post.
Cocas icon includes a leaf, and the coca plant can be used to makecocaine.
It simulates drinking beer on your phone.
These other apps have not been removed from the App Store or forced to rebrand, Gustafson wrote.
In this case, Gustafson managed to get Apple to see the absurdity of its ways.
Yet, this doesnt mean that Amphetamine is free of any future issues with the big tech giant.
Its a really unfortunate side-effect of distributing apps via the App Store.
As a developer, you just have no idea if Apple is going to shut you down one day.
Quite frankly, Im thankful to have a regular 9-5 job that pays the bills.
I am not dependent on App Store sales income like many other developers.
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