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Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ignorance-is-bliss dept.

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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  1. Re:Apple's store by arth1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And if they have a de-facto monopoly situation, other rules come into play.

    Point me to a competing service that delivers software for the iPhone, and i'll grant that it's not a monopoly.

  2. Tell that to M$! by Grant,thompson · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it

    Yeah, ask Microsoft about doing whatever they want with their own products (IE and Media Player in Windows). Making/Owning the best selling or most used of something and then putting rules around it, usually is asking for trouble from a government agency of some sort.