I just had my first title submission rejection from the App Store. The reason given? The small bundle icon does not match your large icon.

OK, so at first I was pretty irate, they both contain the same elements and it seemed pretty obvious. But after cooling down, I have to admit that objectively it is possible some customers would be confused … I still think the reviewer is being pretty nit-picky here, but I also know that end users can be very easily confused.

What do you think?

Fortress Luna App icon

Original Fortress Luna App Store image

We’re going to redo the app store image to match the icon, since the original image has too much detail to be reduced to an icon.

Conclusion: While it might seem that you only need a passing resemblance between the two, if you don’t want your app rejected over a trivial matter, take my advice and make sure there is no way someone can’t tell that the two images refer to the same app!

Recently I had a coworker who upgraded his iPhone to 3.0 find that he could no longer sync that iPhone with his iTunes music library on a Windows computer. It would, however, sync just fine on a Mac OS X computer. Also, it was correctly syncing other items, such as his app store applications.

Googling turned up a few suggestions that we tried:

• Turning off the phone
• Removing all music and re-adding it (ie, remove from iTunes DB, NOT from the hard drive!)
• Resetting iTunes sync settings (preferences->devices then clear sync history or forget all remotes)

None of these worked, but we did find the answer with a last resort effort.

Solution: Uninstall all Apple software (you probably only needed to uninstall iTunes, but this is what we did) and then re-install iTunes.

This uninstall/reinstall should allow you to again sync an iPhone with your music library.