App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours Friday, 7 August 2026 Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology.
- ▪App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours Friday, 7 August 2026 Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people.
- ▪It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology.
- ▪It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology.
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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours Friday, 7 August 2026 Terry Godier, “Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology. I penned a nice little rant two years ago expressing my fury over the way that kooks promoting astrology often try to insinuate that their voodoo pseudoscience is even vaguely related to the hard science of astronomy. And it really is an unfortunate fluke of the English language that two subjects with a contentious relationship are differentiated as words by two letters.
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