Apple asks developer to cut Android brand from iPhone app description

Educational software developer Flash of Genius reports Apple has requested the firm remove mention of Google's Android mobile operating system from the iTunes description of the startup's iPhone and iPod touch application Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2. In November 2009, Google announced that the Android version of Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab was a Top 10 finalist in its category in the Android Developer's Challenge, and the firm hoped to include that information to boost sales of its iPhone app. As a result, Apple determined that the Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab 2.2 application submission contained "inappropriate or irrelevant platform information," according to an email sent by the iPhone Developer Program.

"Providing future platform compatibility plans or other general platform references are not relevant in the context of the iPhone App Store," the email continues. "While your application has not been rejected, it would be appropriate to remove ‘Finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge!' from the Application Description." On its blog, Flash of Genius said it will remove the Android mention.

For more on the Flash of Genius snafu:
- read this Gizmodo article

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