After 6 months of suggestions to one of my clients, they retroactively decided to flat out forbid 2 party phone call recording apps from the store.
He was flat out rejected. After being suggested to put in-app purchasing in his app.
I'd say "App store reviewers are tired, cranky, varied from one another, pissed off when people dump crap on them, and unwilling to go out on a limb when in doubt", and that accounts for 90% of all the rejections and behavior we see from them.
Phone call recording gets into dicey legal ground. I'm aware that 2 party covers most of the situations but it's mess they likely don't want to deal with.
Phone call recording with notification is very legal. We could very easily call the second party on the call and play a message before combining the calls that clearly points out the call is being recorded
Either way, they're not liable in the slightest for it.
All of that aside, it doesn't really matter. If you don't want to get into a call recording app, you say that at the beginning when first shown a call recording app. After you've suggested a company do 10k worth of development, then make a policy rejection on something the app has done since day one, you've screwed up.
So preventing the sell of a useful tool that might or might not be used legally while under the control of someone who is informed of the distinction and able to take that responsibility themselves.... how paternal of them.
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After 6 months of suggestions to one of my clients, they retroactively decided to flat out forbid 2 party phone call recording apps from the store.
He was flat out rejected. After being suggested to put in-app purchasing in his app.
I'd say "App store reviewers are tired, cranky, varied from one another, pissed off when people dump crap on them, and unwilling to go out on a limb when in doubt", and that accounts for 90% of all the rejections and behavior we see from them.
Phone call recording gets into dicey legal ground. I'm aware that 2 party covers most of the situations but it's mess they likely don't want to deal with.
Phone call recording with notification is very legal. We could very easily call the second party on the call and play a message before combining the calls that clearly points out the call is being recorded
Either way, they're not liable in the slightest for it.
All of that aside, it doesn't really matter. If you don't want to get into a call recording app, you say that at the beginning when first shown a call recording app. After you've suggested a company do 10k worth of development, then make a policy rejection on something the app has done since day one, you've screwed up.
So preventing the sell of a useful tool that might or might not be used legally while under the control of someone who is informed of the distinction and able to take that responsibility themselves.... how paternal of them.
And in what capacity is the app store legally responsibly for carrying apps that allow recording?