On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > [In Apple's World, there are consumers and then there are developers, and > geez, but they make it hard for the two to meet. Finding even this > preliminary information was not obvious, and I even have developer accounts.] > > Apple has guidelines for submitting apps to their Mac App Store. (Note, the > Mac App Store is not the same as the iOS App Store, though I suppose they'll > eventually converge.) The portal page for the Mac App Store: > > * https://developer.apple.com/appstore/index.html > > Clicking on the Mac App Store Guidelines link puts you on page demanding your > Apple ID login/pwd to proceed. (This is normal for Apple, and I did this the > last time we promoted OpenOffice.org on the Apple applications list, back in > 2010 or so; and, embarrassingly enough, what eventuated, at least for a > while, was that my name was listed as the applications. Sigh.) > > So, I have a developer membership, however, it's lapsed… and costs 99 US big > ones to renew it per annum. Sucks. So, unless someone gets the très important > guidelines for applications, and it seems that one can get them only as an > Apple dev. member, then…. >
Hmm.... so you can't even see the requirements unless you pay them $99. It's good to be the king... There is some info on Wikipedia that may or may not be correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store There are a couple anti-competitive clauses there that could cause us to be disallowed, particularly these two prohibitions: "-- Software that is similar in look or function to current Apple products (e.g. Mac App Store, Finder, iTunes, iChat, etc.). -- Software similar to other software that is already released in the Mac App Store. Examples given: Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw, Photoshop Lightroom & Apple Aperture, Cinema 4D and 3D Max, etc.". -Rob > Best > louis > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org