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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.
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It's Apple's platform, Apple's SDK, and Apple's store. Why should they allow any product on the shelf that competes with their own business? Why should they allow useless products? You don't get mad at Best Buy for not selling maps to Circuit City. You don't get mad at Circuit City for not selling empty cardboard boxes for $999. Why should Apple's store be any different?
The Iphone is an orwellian police state where everything you do on it is carefully censored and controlled by Apple.
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.
No. This is pure profit motive, that's all.
Apple is hyper-monopolistic and hyper-aggressive when it comes to their OS.
No one has built an effective Mail client for Mac OS X. No one has built a good replacement for ANY of the Mac OS X's system tools, BECAUSE Apple closes their system effectively.
On one hand they cry out loud no one builds apps for their OS, but OTOH they scuttle anything which remotely threatens them.
Unlike Microsoft.
True Microsoft is the T-Rex, but they don't compete in markets like system tools, mail clients, etc., and other apps like Bloomberg, financial apps, even browsers, where they have a good market share and poor market share too.
Microsoft actually is more accomodating than Apple in this case.
Its time to start going the Android way.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
The Mail app on the phone is fine..... the only problem i have is that I cant see my flags.....
other then that its great...... personally all those stupid apps in the app store that mimic other apps should be taken out......
and I dont blame apple for pulling apps that mimic their stuff..... it is there business..... if you want unstable and unsupported jailbreak your phone
and If you dont make apps because you think that apple is going to steal them thats just stupid. little apps that do mininmal stuff are bringing in 1000's of dollars a month for there developers.... just stay out of the apple area and reap the benefits
Do they think their users are idiots?
Yep - unfortunately, they might be right. I have a couple if iPhone-owning friends who are rationalising this behaviour for them without Apple having to try.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
>>In short.. If you do not like the iPhone, then dont buy one.
(Classic Apple fanboy reply)
Then why the fuck everybody is up in arms when it comes to microsoft. Get the fuck out of here if you don't like this discussion.
But by using a different distribution method (jailbroken device + cydia or installer.app) you could duplicate the functionality of apple's own apps.
And also simultaneously reduce your potential customer base by 99.999%, thus giving Apple what they want.
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