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

[KGIII]

If you're gonna mark me troll, trust me I don't mind, then at least have the COURAGE to return and post the reasons why even if you are forced to do so as AC. I was not trolling. I was pointing out factual information that you don't like or don't agree with. If you can provide factual information to explain why you think I am wrong feel free to show it. Until then, well, understand the moderation system and know that moderating -1 I Don't Like is not going to help you.

I can get hundreds, probably, of -1 modifications and still do just fine.

Please READ what I said, understand it, and if you don't like it then respond as that is far more constructive than just slamming it with a negative moderation which has no impact on me at all other than to get me to respond like this and, well, this is going to take me like three to five minutes so the impact isn't great.

Again mods, read it... I don't like it much either. That is the reality. Stop mis-using the word DRM and, ya know, people might start to listen. Stop letting people redefine words like DRM or "freedom" and then you'll get people to listen. Without license is free. GPL then, really, isn't free. Those who modded me down are (in my experiences) quite likely to believe that the GPL is free. It is not free. It is MORE free. It is, by no means, free. GPL is not, by any stretch of the imagination, copy protection alone. There are many aspects of it, some of them are even potentially good as well as sound security.

If you want to mod me down, I don't mind, have the balls to stand up and say why.

reasons for the censorship

[deadsunrise]

They are just scared of people making apps that are better than what they do because if everybody used the "improved" apps they would:

- look bad for not doing the "best" application for X
- don't look innovative when they add X functionality
- be scared with the possibility that the new famous and considered better app is migrated to android and steals iphone buyers
- look nonprofessional when a third party developer can patch bugs in days and they wait months between iphone software releases.

I own several macs and I'm happy with their products but they should stop this retarded policy.

Re:iphone is a police state

[Dan541]

Apple are a bunch of Nazis!