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
>
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