Minipops iPhone app rejected then accepted with no changes
Famous people in pixelated form makes it through approval on second attempt
Minipops is one of those essentially useless, but highly entertaining iPhone apps that blurs the boundary between game and application.
It presents you with over 1,000 famous people in pixelated form - giving you a glance at what Abba, the A-Team or Steve Jobs would look like as Atari 2600 sprites, and includes a guessing game to test your powers of pixelated deduction.
You can also save your Minipops as contact pictures for your friends, so you've got a vague, but stylish idea of who's calling you when the iPhone rings.
What's doubly interesting about Minipops is its journey through the App Store review process, however. Initially it was rejected under the familiar policy of defaming public figures, but according to Krapps the app was then submitted again a few months later - with no changes made at all - and was approved!
We appreciate what a mammoth task Apple has in reviewing the hundreds of submissions it gets every second, but it's hard not to be a little cynical when stories like this - and the NES emulator that appeared this morning - surface.
