“4.3”

We have an app which has been in service for quite some time and was built to run on both iPhone and iPod touch devices. It was last updated in 2014 and at the time was set to target iOS 4.3 (which wasn't the latest at the time IIRC but it worked and we didn't need newer features so had left it at that value).With iOS 11, the app no longer works and we're trying to get it updated to work in this environment. After updating the development machine OS and Xcode to the latest and opening the project, one of the mods it required was to target at least iOS 8.0.This brings to mind the iPod Touch. I believe the iPod touch OS stopped moving forward at around v6 or so? I don't think an iPod touch can move up to 8 can it?It was nice that customers could use either an iPhone/iPad or iPod touch to run the app. Is it just understood that you can't target the iPod touch and the newer devices with the same app? Anyone else have experience with a similar issue?If we do update the app to run on iOS 11 will the iPod t

I have separate apps that have the same UI/UX but are different 'under the hood' and each app is distributed to different countries. Under Review Guideline 4.3, Apple are requesting that the apps be consolidated into a single app. My concern with this is that when the container app is released, the users of the existing apps will not be aware of the new update (or any updates after that) because the Bundle IDs will be different.Is there any way to somehow link the Bundle IDs (even if temporarily) so that users of the existings app will be notified that an update is available when the consolidated app is first released?

I've exhausted all avenues getting this resolved; so I'm posting this here mainly to document the absurdity of what happened, and as a warning to other developers.We built an app that was rejected because of its name. We happily renamed the app, creating a new app record because we also wanted to rename the SKU and Bundle ID, and you can't do this any other way.Big mistakeNow there are two factors combining to put us in an impossible situation.The little-known, bizarre limitation of iTunes Connect that An app that has never been approved can never be deletedThe improper enforcement of the 4.3 guideline such that Similar apps you have submitted in the past apparently includes apps that were rejected and are not on the App Store.So now, our New Name app is being rejected for being too similar to our Old Name app. And the Old Name app can't be deleted because it was never approved.To make matters worse, thanks to inconsistent enforcement, our New Name app actually was approved in its first version (1.0)

Is there a way out of this madness? If there are businesses that are impossible to consolidate their apps (i.e. when your business model is food ordering and your direct competitors are marketplaces so you cannot become a marketplace -it is stupid to have an online ordering marketplace with 100 clients throughout the world, we go for quality not quantity since we offer a premium product-), is Apple directly saying to us that we have to shut down? Is there an official and serious response from Apple as to what their Review Team has to see in order to accept apps? Should we rewrite 100.000 lines of code for each client so they are happy? Should we design separately 200 different online ordering apps so they are happy? What makes an app different enough for them? How can a development business make sure that if they have 20 clients for a specific kind of app and are under contract that they will not get drawn to the courthouse for not delivering to their clients?Is there really a way out of this madness?

The 4.3 guidelines is designed to fight spams. But from what we have seen, it seems to go too far.What does Apple really want to achieve by pushing it that far and ban many businesses from their store?There are different ways to fight spam. You can improve your search ranking algorithm to get the spammy apps appear in lower ranks instead.

I just received a similar note for my updated and new apps is rejected from Apple for many of our apps, although they were not in review.Guideline 4.3 - Design We noticed that your app provides the same feature set as many of the other apps you've submitted to the App Store;i Recieved the same note on my all apps that is rejected, what are the main reason to rejection my all app verion from itunes developer account, please give me brief detail about rejected reason, and tell me how to take an action for all app in review and live on account, i am very confused about this matter. so please request to you kindly focus on my apps rejected reason issue and give me proper guidelines to solve and update the next verion of these apps. thanks.developer account links, while my all rejected with the different obejects, toipc and concept.https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/saurabh-gupta/id976015972rejected apps ids:12581071251266592533124883962312672935761198916667127552218512650539431278920151