Julian Lepinski

Two days ago we submitted an updated version of Pano to Apple for review. We’ve been working on this since the day v1.0 was released, and we’re all kinds of excited to get it out there. Adam put a ton of work into improving memory management, better colour correction and image blending, and Eric came up with a beautiful new icon for the 2.0 release.

And then…

Dear Debacle Software, (Oh no…)

Thank you for submitting Pano to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Pano and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because of an Apple trademark image.  We want to remind you of the importance of following Apple’s posted Guidelines for Using Apple’s Trademarks and Copyrights: <http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/guidelinesfor3rdparties.html>.

If you believe that you can make the necessary changes so that Pano does not infringe on Apple trademarks, we encourage you to do so and resubmit it for review.

The infringement in question, we assume (thanks for not being specific, Apple) is our new icon. Well, what was going to be our new icon. Observe:

>Pano icons: v1.0 and the 2.0 reject

I guess Apple was alright with us showing < 50% of an iPhone silhouette? Perhaps this is just common knowledge, but I haven’t been able to find a list of Apple’s image trademarks. (They aren’t included in their trademark list.)

So now we have to decide: Do we delay 2.0 until we get a new icon ready, or do we ship with the original icon?