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Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app
recoiledsnake writes "Another submission has been rejected from the iPhone App Store, this time for 'duplicating the functionality of the iPhone Mail application.' The author claims that his application allows the user to log into their multiple web email accounts and that Apple seems to be confusing Gmail and Mail.app. This comes on the heels of Apple rejecting an application for competing with iTunes and rejecting other silly but harmless apps as being of 'limited utility.'"
ComputerWorld has an update to the rejected Podcaster app mentioned above. It seems the developer has used Apple's "Ad Hoc" service to begin distributing the software despite the fact that they blocked it from the App Store.
>>It's Apple's platform, Apple's SDK, and Apple's store... blah blah... Why should Apple's store be any different?
And it's apple's dick in your mouth. Why should I listen to you?
Yes, all phones other than the iPhone are open source, free as in speech, have rainbows and pixie dust coming out of their speakers, and taste like the finest champagne.
I've read the Constitution, sir, and I missed the line wherein the people's right to use a cellular phone in any manner they wish shall not be abridged.
Grow up, apple hater
But don't make it out like this is immoral. To a lot of us this is not a limitation, its a feature. I like the closed system. I prefer to know that every application is vetted by apple, even if it means waiting or paying more for some functions, it means I'll never have to worry about viruses or malware. This has always been what I've liked about apple - I don't want twenty different applications that do the same thing, I want one good one.
And it's a wonder that the iPhone is such a hot item. I personally wouldn't buy one. Too much hype scares me away from purchases, because I end up thinking to myself "what is wrong with the device that we are all overlooking?" Well, DRM and Big Brother Apple are certainly a couple major things wrong with the iPhone.
Maybe I've just been too exposed to the Apple Zealots over the recent years... It's more than likely that a lot of iPhone users are not zealotous about it. It just bothers me when there are probably other just as viable options that are more open not become a more accepted alternative to products like the iPod and iPhone.
The iPhone heavily features transitions to make the UI look sexy. Try focusing on real usability issues
You're quite right. If only Apple knew as much about HCI as you, Mr. Coward.
Clue: Usable interfaces mimic physical reality. Physical reality doesn't instantaneously flick from one state to another.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
I just e-mailed two of my apple-loving friends regarding this news, and I expect that both of them will try to rationalize Apple's move.
On the bright side, one of these friends doesn't argue too much when I point out lies in Apple's "Mac vs PC" commercials... so who knows.
screw apple, i hope they go away sooner rather than later, and screw all the fanboys too, everything, limited, locked down, it COULD have been REALLY cool if they would OPEN there systems a little