We got an email from Apple today saying that they don't approve of Beeminder's business model and we have 14 days to submit an updated app that's compliant with their guidelines.

Excerpt:

Customers expect the App Store to be a safe and trusted marketplace for purchasing digital goods. Apps should never betray this trust by attempting to cheat users in any way.

Specifically, we found that users can provide their payment information in order to create a monetary penalty that will be charged if the users don't achieve their goals. This concept is not suitable for the App Store.

We've sent an appeal and emphasized that our iOS app is just a tool to enter data and see graphs and it happens to send that data to Beeminder.com which is where the evil happens.

Will that be persuasive to them or will our appeals bounce off a faceless bureaucracy? Will we find another way to stay on the App Store or does Apple have it in for us? 😬

Resolves YES if Beeminder has been delisted at market close.