Your application, Web is Pink, is requiring unexpected additional time for review. We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.

Judging from a Google search, it could be a legit notice that the reviewers are backlogged, but it’s more likely to mean that they’ve just gotten fed up with rejecting my application and moved on to veto it — that notice was sent exactly ten minutes after the one that acknowledged reception of my reply to their latest rejection e-mail.

You wouldn’t think that I paid to enter the developer program.

Thank you for submitting Web is Pink to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Web is Pink and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:

"Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users."

Attached are screen shots of some examples of objectionable content.

Like I said before, the application barely acknowledges the existence of sex anymore. Well, there is the word “sex” on the third screenshot.

And the fourth screenshot, as you can tell, is taken from Mobile Safari — because profile pages include a link to the web version of the profile, the one that isn’t censored:

Thank you for submitting Web is Pink to the App Store. We’ve reviewed Web is Pink and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains inappropriate sexual content and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:

"Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users."

No screenshot of the objectionable material attached this time… probably because I’ve removed all sexual content from the version of the web app that’s accessible from within the application. It hardly “acknowledges the existence of sex” anymore, as Ira Glass would say — meanwhile, there are still cock shots on aka-aki and Grindr, of course. Bite me.

I’m taking a break until iPhone OS 3.0 is out and the App Store gets parental controls. Or I’m re-uploading as is, in case I get more lucky with another reviewer. Not sure.