Hi there. I develop video courses. I have spent months creating new courses and then months packing everything inside apps for iOS, Apple TV and Mac. This is almost a year of work, 14 hours a day.
Now Apple have rejected the courses for "lack of functionality".
I have researched the app store and saw that all courses there are old, with no update. Now I understand why. Apple is rejecting everyone and blocking knowledge.
Following the rejection I have received a call from an Apple engineer who suggested two new functionalities for the app, in order to be approved. I have added the two new functionalities and the app was rejected again.
What someone downloading a course can expect from a course? Watch the lessons, acquire knowledge or culture and improve at a personal or professional level.
For a company that claims to be on the intersection of arts and technology, they don't see that this draconian rule is hurting exactly culture and knowledge.
They tell us that videos should be sent to iTunes for sale but they don't mention that in order to do that you have to hire the services of an aggregator, paying good money for every course you create, per year, so you can have your videos on iTunes.
This rule may be valid for other apps but it is crushing courses and knowledge.
Said that, my app has 4 buttons basically (what do you expect of a video course?)
- the list of lessons, a table view you can select a lesson to watch.
- a bookmark button, you can use to save bookmarks storing the video/time to watch later.
- a share button, you can share screenshots or notes to messages, email, etc., add notes etc.
- a button where you can access PDF documents that the user may need.
Please, I ask you guys what more can I add to pass this draconian rule?