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Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps?
jamie pointed out what appears to be an unfortunate policy for Apple's app store that is refusing anything to do with BitTorrent. The example is a remote control app that allows a user to interface with their Transmission BitTorrent client. This certainly isn't the first complaint over app store policy. Issues from the return policy to the "objectionable content" of Nine Inch Nails have some developers concerned over what Apple is doing to the market. Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.
Isn't this what web UIs are for?
I think ittl be a few years before people realize that bittorrent is perfectly legal, and a great distribution method.
It was an app to remotely control your desktop client. In other words the main utility was in starting your download again once you're on the bus and realise you forgot to unpause it.
It's all fun and games until a 200' robot dinosaur shows up and trashes Neo-Tokyo... Again
The difference isn't between companies interested in their bottom line and companies not so interested(all of which are dead); but between companies whose bottom line is bolstered by controlling you and companies whose bottom line is bolstered by serving you.