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.

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Re:iphone is a police state

[jonnythan]

I was playing with an iPhone last night.

The things are sick. Way, way cooler and more usable than any other similar device on the market.

I was playing with an app called "Level." It's just what it says it is - a leveling device. It's accurate to a tenth of a degree. It's ingenious.

And another called "Shazam." You hit the "tag" button, and it records about 10 seconds of whatever song is playing in your vicinity. Then it looks up the song in a database and tells you the artist and song title.

How cool is that? I know of no other device on the market that can duplicate this functionality, let alone the usability.

The interface is stellar. And there are tons of other impressively cool apps out there. And it's an iPod. And it does the "phone" thing very well. Just look at how it handles voicemail.

Re:iphone is a police state

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