AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story

Re:AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story by EGreg on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @03:32PM (#5520587)

Although I do agree that this is nerve wracking, I think the situation will resolve itself.

The one question I have is ... why did they use push notifications to send a daily message, when they could have just scheduled them locally? Clearly Apple notices anomalous traffic for non-transactional notifications, such as one that's sent once a day to everyone, and that's probably what alerted some unrelated guys in the app store. I imagine the guy wanted to follow up and then, unable to reach the CEO, pulled the app.

I would say the company with so many employees should probably have other people to pick up the slack for the CEO when he is on a plane.

Of course, what do I know. We have a completely different structure, and are distributed around the world.

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Re:AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story by MartinMoi on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:07AM (#5524013)

It's not stated that they used "remote" push notifications, maybe they're talking about local push notifications.

Also, I guess Apple only tried to reach the CEO because when you summit an iOS app, you have to give them the information a person to contact in case they need to. I guess they gave them the CEO information.

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Re:AppGratis pulled from the App Store. Here’s the full story by EGreg on Thursday April 11, 2013 @02:08PM (#5533657)

I can say it's a good probability that they did ... and that triggered this problem.

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