Never try to play a fool with Apple on their iPhone App Store

To date, we all know that the iPhone App Store approval process is pretty much of a black box, where apps are accessed by different staff with different yardsticks. We had seen apps being approved for sale which used private APIs (eg. QuadCamera for using the UIGetScreenImage() API), while others got rejected.

But what we learnt today is that if you have breached the trust with Apple like what Allen the Geek did, they call pull ALL your apps from the App Store.

Allen the Geek had a "Hottest Girls" app approved by Apple and put on the app store, which retrieved pictures of sexy girls from his server. He apparently added some almost nude photos onto his server after it was approved, intentionally. Some of Allen's other apps also included a "Hottest Guys" and also a "EliteBrowser" meant for browing naughty sites.


After the whole fiasco, all these apps were pulled from the App Store.


The lesson to learn is, never try to play around/ breach the trust with Apple (or any one else in general) or they'll try to screw you a few times over.