App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

John Gruber covers the case of Dark Hours, a well-designed iOS astronomy app that was rejected from the App Store on the grounds that it was an astrology app. Despite having no horoscopes, tarot features, or any astrology-related content, the app was rejected and the rejection was upheld by the App Review Board — which even claimed the app had a 'live tarot reading feature' that doesn't exist. Gruber uses this as a pointed example of Apple's App Store review process being broken: not just prone to mistakes, but incapable of correcting obvious ones.

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