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Apple Accepts, Then Rejects BitTorrent iPhone App

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-up-yer-mind-wouldja dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple recently approved an iPhone app called IS Drive, which lets users check and manage downloads from ImageShack.us, while also offering users the option to use the company's BitTorrent service to download files to their ImageShack account. Once Apple got wind of what the app was capable of, however, it was promptly removed from iTunes."

2 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Seems strange they approved it at all by biryokumaru · · Score: 2, Funny

    To be fair, the app in question duplicated functionality: it communicated with other machines over the internet to perform specific tasks. Apple can't allow any apps to do that! I'm glad there aren't any other ones breaking the rules like that...

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  2. Re:Obious Reason by Combatso · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't want to play by those rules, then don't. That simple.

    Seems to me they didn't want to play by those rules, and didn't.