http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=204164
No, there will be no attempt to submit Kodi to the Apple App Store. Apple has never said they didn't want XBMC in the App Store because they were never asked. It has nothing to do with the name. We violate a ton of rules for submission, and to comply with those rules we would have to rip out and nerf a ton of features. We have no interest in creating a nerfed version of Kodi.