New certification checklist

"nocarrier" wrote:
Since there has been no clarification on this issue and I really need to push an update (company logo change... nothing but images), I decided to go head and submit it.
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I will post an update if/when I get some sort of response

Don't sweat it - that's peanuts!
Have a look here to see what apps have passed review recently viewtopic.php?f=34&t=96083 - one does nothing, the other two are miscategorized.
You'll be fine.

Here is what i figure is happening - apparently the Co has decided recently push for massively broadening^ the "universal search". That feature is great on its own and every publisher who can, already wants to use it. What is not great is that somebody has decided to extort developers into using it. Which is silly, since whoever can use it, will use it anyhow (it brings traffic!) - and whoever cannot (a game! how do you "deep link" into a game?) - well, you can't get blood form a stone.

There are 2 possible explanations behind the mis-statements of the blog and not correcting them yet:

• Either it's unintentional - due to "broken telephone game", the evangelists did not understand what is being asked by the higher-ups and are misrepresenting into caricatures the mandates for deep linking and device support


• Or it's an intentional move - being unclear on purpose, to use FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) in forcing as many as possible into joining uni-search

I don't know which of the two is the case though.

(^) maybe for marketing purposes? "our Search scours through $(GAZILLION) content providers!"