To notify, or not to notify
Recently, Apple contacted me to reject my application submission (request re-submission). Their reason? They claim that since some of the functionality of VocabViewer is disabled when there is no internet connection, I need to alert the user about this.
I disagree. VocabViewer can be used without an internet connection, still allowing you to add new categories and manage your word lists. Although their new additions will not be uploaded to the the server, and they will not receive updates from other users, their base functionality still remains. I don’t think this is a situation where I want to disrupt the user, however, I may have to an exception to be approved for the App Store.
What do you think? Should you interupt a user to notify them of a lack of extra functionality? For the time being, I will add the functionality, and wait for some feedback from users. Thats the idea right, iterate, iterate, iterate. Repeat.