Re:Ask HN: Apple Rejected Our App Because It Was Too "Simple...
by Terretta on Thursday December 19, 2013 @11:15PM
(#6939893)
You are doing the right thing. Your app exists to Collect photos for a business, that's what it should do.
Some apps have screen shots that aren't screenshots but more like presentations explaining screenshots. You could try that to make clear the great things going on at the other end of your Collect app?
Your real audience will be the Business's users, but in this round, your audience is the Apple reviewer. It needs to look, to them, like it's doing something cool.
Or, since your install vector is a link:
* Use an HTML5 app!
That was the original intent for the platform, and iPhones and iPads support that.
Some apps have screen shots that aren't screenshots but more like presentations explaining screenshots. You could try that to make clear the great things going on at the other end of your Collect app?
Your real audience will be the Business's users, but in this round, your audience is the Apple reviewer. It needs to look, to them, like it's doing something cool.
Or, since your install vector is a link:
* Use an HTML5 app!
That was the original intent for the platform, and iPhones and iPads support that.
Have a look at http://forecast.io or http://forecast.io/lines for examples of apps that install as HTML5 apps w/o using app store, and do cool things.
In your case, you can upload photos and EXIF data, and you can get to an install faster.
There are so many async js file uploaders to S3 at this point, you're golden.