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Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app

Posted by Soulskill on from the forbidden-fruit dept.

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.

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  1. Apple declares: "Fuck it, we're evil" by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Fuck it," said Steve Jobs to an audience of soul-mortgaged thralls, "we're evil. But our stuff is sooo good. You'll keep taking our abuse. You love it, you worm. Because our stuff is great. It's shiny and it's pretty and it's cool and it works. It's not like you'll go back to a Windows Mobile phone. Ha! Ha!"

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    1. Re:Apple declares: "Fuck it, we're evil" by Atzanteol · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just another entry in the iProduct line.

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    2. Re:Apple declares: "Fuck it, we're evil" by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

      Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting the Linux-based phone where you do everything from a bash prompt. The Command Line! The Quintessential One-Dimensional Desktop!! What Linux devotee could settle for less?

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  2. Re:iphone is a police state by msclrhd · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is: http://www.openmoko.com/.

  3. Re:Why should Apple open up? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am an Apple fan to the highest degree

    That's rather like admitting in public that you have herpes. It's not fatal, but most people would rather not know.

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  4. Re:Command line? You mean like this? by hodet · · Score: 2, Funny

    sudo dial -u 0001 -now linux noobs

  5. Re:iphone is a police state by blind+biker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow. Melodramatic much? How about you just cut to the quick and drop a reference to Nazis or Hitler so we can be done with this thread right off the bat...

    Oh, and for the record, it's "iPhone" - lower case "i", upper case "p". If you're going to claim it's the next biggest evil of technology, at least spell it correctly.

    You're a spelling Nazi. Heck, even worse, you are a so-in-love-with-Apple-that-can't-stand-wrong-capitalization-of-Apple-products-Nazi.

    Happy now?

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  6. Re:iphone is a police state by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like I said. They're evil, but you'll willingly submit!!

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