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.

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Re:If you don't like it....

[hoggoth]

If you don't know how to make logical analogies, don't do it.

Android FTW.

[Facegarden]

Seeing this story elsewhere today prompted me to check the Android Market for a similar app.

Yup, found one and downloaded it immediately.

Works with Transmission (like the rejected app in the story) and uTorrent, making it great for users of any platform (i think mac users have one or the other, and Transmission is great on linux, uTorrent rocks on windows).

Gotta setup my new computer with DYNDNS again, but It looks like a nice app just from the setup options.

I have started developing a bit (a tiny bit) for Android, and I am really starting to appreciate the platform a lot.

I switched from windows mobile to the iphone a year ago, and then from the iphone to a G1 a few months ago, and I love my G1, it's the best phone I've ever had, and knowing now that I can develop apps for it easily (and on any platform, no less) for free (if I don't want to distribute them, or for just $25 one time developer's fee if I do) makes me REALLY like the platform.

Android rocks.
-Taylor