Daring Fireball Retracts App Store Rejection Story After Being Misled

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

Daring Fireball Retracts App Store Rejection Story After Being Misled

John Gruber retracts his previous post about an App Store rejection, admitting he was misled by developer Terry Godier. The app in question was actually an astrology app named Asterly, not the astronomy app Dark Hours, and Apple's rejection was correct. Gruber apologizes for besmirching App Store reviewers and for the error in his reporting.

Obviously it was I who was mistaken. This article is my correction, and I apologize to all who read and believed my now-retracted post, and to the reviewers at the App Store whose competence (if not literacy) I besmirched.

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2026-08-09