Where is the App-Aid app? Why is it not available yet in the software store? This is the question that occupies a quarter of the comments on the site, many messages on our e-mail, and many posts on our page on Facebook Or on our account on Twitter @iPhoneIslam Or even the account of the founder of the site iPhone Islam iTarek @

if Where is the App-Aid app? The answer is short, Apple has so far disrupted its access to the App Store, but if you want to elaborate, follow the story with us from the start ... 

The idea of ​​the App-project came back about a year ago when we found that the app store is not available in the Arabic language and that searching in the Arabic language is just messing up and never gives correct results, and that bad applications have spread, including sexual applications, corrupt applications, and even distorted copies of the Qur’an. This crowding and we lost many successful developers due to their lack of profits and heading to other projects.

It was necessary to pause to serve our Arab community and correct this error, especially after all attempts with Apple failed. We did not succeed in deleting any bad application, no matter how many complaints there were, and we did not succeed in talking with Apple to improve the status of the application store for Arab users.

So the preparation for the App-Aid project began, and the matter is contrary to what some understood ... App-Aad is not an app store competing with Apple, never ... App-Aad is an Arab platform in which successful applications, whether Arab or foreign, are collected and categorized well and show the distinction with giving tools to the Arab user such as Smart search, Arab and Islamic classifications, the best applications in the Arab world, the ability to display only Arab applications, and other tools that will make the Arab user reach to choose the best applications with the best price offers, and then the user is directed to the Apple application store to buy and install the application.

Indeed, after good preparation, the development of the App-Aad website began and at the same time the application development began, meaning that we were preparing for the App-back project a year ago and we began developing the application ten months ago. Indeed, with enthusiasm and diligence, there was always someone working on the App-Aad project, regardless of the design that was returned More than once, to get to the best and finest design or development that has gone through many stages, and every time we are not satisfied with the results and we re-develop entire parts from the beginning.

At the beginning of this year, specifically January 1, 2012, the August-Aad website was officially announced, and for the first time the project and the application were talked about. He told us that we are working on developing a distinct application that will be available in the software store upon completion. Indeed, on May 17, 2012, the August application was completed. - It was returned and it was put in a test period, and we have put a video explaining the features of the application ...

The App Journey - Back to the Apple App Store

  • On May 30th, the app was uploaded - back for the first time for Apple
  • The application was pending on June 5 and then moved to the application examination phase
  • The app remained like this without any reaction from Apple, whether with acceptance or rejection, until June 15
  • The presence of Engineer Tariq Mansour at the Apple conference helped to speak with an Apple official to find out why the application was left without approval or rejection
    • Tariq Mansour spoke with Professor Philip Show Maker, who is one of the managers in charge of the Apple App Store, and told him that Apple will not accept the application because it looks similar to the Apple App Store.
    • Tariq told him that it is not similar to the software store application in this big way, so the user can easily distinguish between the two and in any case what are your advice to us until the application is accepted
    • Tell Professor Philip you should delete the orange stars and change the list to look different from the Apple App Store
    • Tariq told him well, no problem, but since the disagreement is minor, I promise you to amend the application when I return to Egypt. I only agree to it now.
    • Professor Philip replied, "I can't. You amend."I promise you he will be accepted in one day فقط
    • Tariq thanked him, especially after Professor Philip confirmed that he is a man who fulfills his pledge :)
  • When Tariq Mansour returned to Egypt and met with the August team, it was agreed that the application would change to become in violation of the App Store and satisfy Apple, and indeed this was done ...

  • On June 25, the update was uploaded to the App Store, as directed by an Apple App Store manager
  • The apps vetting team has been sent a message to Professor Philip's promise
  • Since this time until now, Apple has not responded and the app has been under scrutiny since June 27

What did we do?

  • We text Apple daily and remind them of their promises
    • The response is limited to a few words meaning your application is under examination
  • When the time was long, Apple told us, "Please reject the application or accept it, as until now the application is suspended."
    • The response to us is limited to the reasons for the delay in the examination, and when there is something new, we will contact you
If we calculated that the application and the App-Aad website have been working on them for 10 months and we calculated that the cost of the month is only 7000 dollars, including the salaries of developers, designers and supervisors, the cost of the company and the cost of hosting the App-Aad, which is done on the latest and most expensive Amazon hosts, so that we get a high speed in data transfer You find that we have lost a lot so far, and what Apple is doing in disrupting approval of the application for more than a month is achieving great losses for us, the simplest of which are material losses because the moral losses of the AP team work - returned much more, we work with passion and love and we would like to see the results of this work in the lives of our followers. We want to influence this community and offer it something useful.

Solutions!

  • The only solution at the present time is patience and correspondence with Apple until we reach a reasoned rejection of the application, and then we modify this reason and raise the application again or be patient until Apple accepts the application, we do not know how long Apple can keep the application suspended and we do not know the reasons for the application remaining suspended and not to pay anyone Apple managers made the promise, as I told them in one of the messages, this application has hundreds of similar ones in the software store, and I do not think that there is anything special or anomalous in it except that it supports the Arabic language and Arabic applications greatly.

 

  • Placing the application on the Cydia store is completely unacceptable because the Apple app store is the most widespread and we will not force the Arab user to jailbreak in order to get our application especially after all this effort, time and money and in the end it is restricted to a specific category of jailbreak owners, which most of them get most of their applications are corrupted and not Original, this is not the goal of the App-Aad app.

Why is Apple suspending the App-back app?

  • I am not a fan of the conspiracy theory that is spreading in the Arab world, so Apple does not hate the Arabs, nor does it hate Islam, and there are our brothers working in Apple and other foreign companies.Everyone agrees that companies are mostly concerned with nothing but their interests and profit, so in order not to waste my time and your time, we will not persevere with you in an issue. Apple hates Arabs and Islam, so the App-Aad app has been disabled.
  • Perhaps Tariq Mansour's interview with Mr. Philip and Tariq Mansour's explanation that the application of App-came back is an important application that negatively affected the process of examining the application, or perhaps Mr. Philip did not like Tariq Mansour's speaking style, so he decided to disable the application and not fulfill his promise.
  • Perhaps the application inspection team is waiting for the approval of a specific official who must take his approval with sensitive applications, and this official has a lot of work, so this approval takes a long time.
  • Perhaps the application inspection team works completely randomly, so we find some trivial and worthless applications that find their way to the application store quickly, then Apple pulls them again after discovering that it is not appropriate for the application store to have a monument application that deceives users and the examples are many and it was our luck that we signed with a team Check that questions each application.
  • Perhaps there is a tendency from Apple to refuse applications that offer offers on the application store applications and they are in the process of changing the application inspection laws to include that and disrupting the application-back until these laws are amended.
  • Perhaps someone who follows the iPhone site Islam from Apple has understood in one way or another that the App-application is considered a threat to Apple.
  • Probably …. Mmm, I do not know, perhaps God wants us to do good and not accept the application until now it is the best for us.

In the end, I thank everyone who asked and every follower of us, and I know very well that we are trying to be an unconventional Arab company, providing our users with all the transparency of news and details, and very soon, God willing, we will take you inside the iPhone Islam company to follow us, share with us, and enjoy your presence with us.
We hope that you will pray for us if there is good in this application for God to facilitate for us, or if there is evil in it, we ask God to divert it from us.

We ask everyone, especially please, follow the App-Aad website now on social networks ... there are good news for everyone, great applications, articles and offers ... waiting for you.

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