iPhone app rejected for “transferring excessive volumes of data”

Question

Our lovely app that downloads mp3s from our server into a local file on the phone then plays from that file was rejected for using too much bandwidth.

I understand t

Answer 1

On a more serious note, what is it trying to do? There are many markets for iPhone outside of the US which don't have good download rates for phones, nor are the download cap sizes good, so having an app do lots of downloading isn't a good thing.

Could you possibly drop the data rate on your mp3 or some such? Make it optional to do the downloading with a warning that it will use your download?