Apple logo infringement in Web Feeds

So I finally got an update to Web Feeds – an iPhone RSS reader app – send to Apple for review. It took quiet a while and yesterday I got a message that the update was rejected due to “infringement of Apple trademarks”. Huh?

I know the reviewers are very busy and probably have only minutes to test each update and look for suspicious activity. In this case their decision is rather sad. The application is preconfigured with some RSS-feeds users could be interested in, namely Huff-Post, Boing Boing, Engadget and, yes, Apple Hot News.

Now, when the app launches it fetches the feeds and looks for any FavIcons in the Feed’s domain like any web browser does. Of course the Apple Hot News feed loads up the grey-white apple FavIcon from apple.com. Enough for the reviewer to reject this update (oh, all the other 10 updates have gone through without anyone noticing, hmm).

Maybe I’ll just resubmit without the Apple Hot News feed…