{"id":906,"date":"2012-04-16T21:42:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/?p=906"},"modified":"2012-04-16T21:42:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T04:42:37","slug":"apple-reconsiders-my-appeal-and-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/2012\/04\/apple-reconsiders-my-appeal-and-listens\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Reconsiders My Appeal and Listens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, <a href=\"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/zapps\/whipped-premium\/\">Whipped Premium<\/a> was released. This might not have been a big deal except that Apple rejected my first attempt to release this App, which was surprising. Apple stated that my App encouraged people to do harmful things to their phone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One could perhaps agree that shaking your phone around wildly like a whip could indeed end poorly, but there are a few dozen whip apps on the iTunes&#8217; store, including my very own free <a href=\"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/zapps\/whipped\/\">Whipped zApp<\/a>. So as you can imagine, when I appealed, Apple agreed and approved my App. I wouldn&#8217;t really be shocked, nor would I have even written this short blog post, except <a href=\"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/2012\/04\/banned-from-adsense-and-admob\/\">I was so poorly treated by Google just last week when they banned me from AdSense and AdMob<\/a>. While I&#8217;m willing concede it was my fault, a harsh, no discussion, no second chance approach, coupled with a vague and automated appeal process leaves this customer with a mouth full of distaste.<\/p>\n<p>After that experience, it was a breath of fresh air to be treated as a true customer with an appeal process that involved a real human being. Thank you Apple for hearing me out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Whipped Premium was released. This might not have been a big deal except that Apple rejected my first attempt to release this App, which was surprising. Apple stated that my App encouraged people to do harmful things to their phone&#8230; One could perhaps agree that shaking your phone around wildly like a whip <a href=\"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/2012\/04\/apple-reconsiders-my-appeal-and-listens\/#more-'\" class=\"more-link\"><br \/>more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,24,3,23],"tags":[47,45,58,35,119],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-blog","category-ios-development","category-whipped","tag-admob","tag-adsense","tag-apple","tag-google-maps","tag-whipped"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zsprawl.com\/iOS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}