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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It's Apple's store but it's the only store

[Anonymous Coward]

We wouldn't put up with that situation almost anywhere else.

If Apple wants to let other stores exist then they can censor their own all they want but as long as they prevent other stores from existing they really are acting pretty evil

Re:Jailbreak

[zappepcs]

Forget jailbreaking the iShit.... just don't buy one, problem solved. Ohhhh, you want to use the iWhateverStuff? Live with the DRM then, sucker!

Ahem, that is not a troll, but simply the facts of iLife stated rather bluntly. It is their store, and if they want to run off all their customers, that is their problem. If you're drinking the iCoolaid you need to not complain about the iDRM. Apple is not too big to fail, they just didn't drill so many holes in their life raft as some automakers did.

Re:First Post

[moon3]

legitimate uses of bittorrent

If you mean the 0.01% of all bittorrent traffic that is deemed legitimate, then yes.