<story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The big takeaway is that the app was never &lt;i&gt;removed&lt;/i&gt; from the store - it was just never approved. Apps not being approved is quite common.&lt;p&gt;All the headlines were saying that the app was &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;removed from the store, leading to massive outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calibas</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see how there&amp;#x27;s much difference, it&amp;#x27;s like arguing that a library isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;banning&amp;quot; a book because they refused to carry it in the first place.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The big takeaway is that the app was never &lt;i&gt;removed&lt;/i&gt; from the store - it was just never approved. Apps not being approved is quite common.&lt;p&gt;All the headlines were saying that the app was &amp;quot;banned&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;removed from the store, leading to massive outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Is it really not likely that it was escalated internally, and some managers were sitting on it?</text></comment>