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CF_HoneyBadgeron Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts

"Bug" my arse...someone was trying to prove a point / make a statement and it bit them. Hard.

They will have to do some heavy backpedaling for me to believe it was a bug. I'm a developer. Ive created bugs and fixed bugs. This is not a bug. This is a "feature".

CF_HoneyBadgeron Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later

As a developer (albeit not of Appstore Apps) I can understand the frustration of being told "It crashes" without being told why.

However, there was a very interesting comment on the actual blog itself suggesting something along the line of "re-submit the app under a different name". I actually think that may not be that bad of an idea. If you have done as much verification as possible as to the stability and performance of your product, sometimes you have to do some sideways thinking to get it approved by the powers that be.

I would like to see (just as an experiment) what would happen if the original developer would try this, and see what happens. The worst thing that could happen is that he could get told no (again).