An iPhone app developer has had his program rejected from the App Store approval board for containing “minimal user functionality”.
The app itself, which makes the phone quack like a duck, does nothing except make noise. But Apple decided that wasn’t good enough and said in a letter to Nick Bonatsakis of Atlantia software the QuackPhone app was rejected.
“We’ve reviewed your application DuckPhone and we have determined that this application contains minimal user functionality and will not be appropriate for the App Store.”
“If you would like to share it with friends and family, 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 or if you believe that you can add additional user functionality to DuckPhone we encourage you to do so and resubmit it for review.”
Some have criticised the move, saying other apps contain fair less user functionality than QuackPhone and still appear on the store.
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
