Comments on: Apple Pulls Another Innocuous iPhone App

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:42:38 +0000

Ahh – the rise of the tethered appliance continues apace.

One day, oh Apple fanboys, you will regret your blind faith. What we are seeing here, oh swooning girls, giggling pipsqueaks, is the erosion of the very thing that brought you TC and all that you hold dear on the net: the ability to innovate at the content layer.

DO NOT SAY YOU WERE NOT WARNED

By: robc

robc — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:16:56 +0000

My guess is either:
1. Like others have said, it’s a code/security issue

2. Apple had an issue with the app serving up movie trailers, since the Apple Store does that.

Either way, Apple needs to do a better job of communicating. An App Store blog from Apple would be a nice start.

By: Alex Richard

Alex Richard — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:57:35 +0000

It seems that if the problem were related to a bug in the code the developer should have been the first notified. Assuming its an app that has been well received it seems like it would be in both apple and the devs best interest to get the bug fixed ASAP. It wouldn’t be that diffiult to automate the initial notification. Apple can’t be dropping the ball like that so it seems like its something causing it to be pulled.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:04:47 +0000

Apple should set a pull standards for all iphone apps, and notice developers to improve their apps.

By: Crispy

Crispy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:50:37 +0000

And Alex Linhares is a spammer. So what?

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:43:15 +0000

[...] This time it’s BoxOffice, a diabolical system for finding and displaying local movie times. (http://www.tech...uous-iphone-app [...]

By: CouldBe

CouldBe — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:23:56 +0000

Seems like anyone will criticize Apple these days to get a link.

By: idont

idont — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:52:33 +0000

That’s your fault, you should have developped a web application optimized for the IPhone screen.

No review by Apple in their black box.
Easy to make changes and deploy them.

Different business model but you keep control on *your* soft.

By: Alex Linhares

Alex Linhares — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:57:31 +0000

Steve Jobs is an asshole

By: mik

mik — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:09:14 +0000

So a developer can spend months creating an app (at significant cost I bet) and apple can remove the one’s they don’t like at will? Or not even accept apps they don’t like?

It would be like Firefox or IE banning sites they don’t like!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:51:57 +0000

ANDROID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:01:02 +0000

This true, uploading the source is against the NDA for the SDK, same reason Adium is not making an app for iPhone

By: iDev

iDev — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:57:10 +0000

There’re more loopholes in Appstore that some apps make use of to promote themselves. If you look at the top 10 paid apps list, you’ll see two games BreakClassic and Break, both of them used to be free apps. Suddenly they changed to paid app and their download count was not reset, looks like. So, these not-so-worthy apps are at the top! If Apple doesn’t fix this bug asap, developers will lose confidence in the system.

By: techdude

techdude — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:33:39 +0000

Maybe there was a glitch among some users. It might be back.
http://blabtech.blogspot.com

By: C. Spencer Beggs

C. Spencer Beggs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:36:34 +0000

BoxOffice started crashing my iPhone at some point (not when I first downloaded it, though) after being open for a couple seconds. Same happens on my brother’s iPhone. I had to delete the app altogether.

By: Security and the Net · Apple building too many iPhones?

Security and the Net · Apple building too many iPhones? — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:23:03 +0000

[...] I’m also a bit worried about the amount of control Apple has over their app store; see the reports about Box Office and NetShare for some examples. Since the first reports about cracks in the [...]

By: n2

n2 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:03:52 +0000

guess what? i like linux but i never liked apple.

By: Michael Jensen

Michael Jensen — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:02:52 +0000

Might be because the source code is freely available, which is against the NDA for the SDK I think.

http://code.goo.../source/browse/

Thanks to @justin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:18:38 +0000

Could it be because the App shows RottenTomato ratings. Per RTs TOS it is not kosher to show those like that.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:17:32 +0000

Sorry to hear about your app. If you find anything out please let us all know. We’re developers of a jailbroken only app and are following this issue closely in hopes there might be some way to have Apple ease up a bit on the App Store restrictions.

By: Apple Rep

Apple Rep — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:17:31 +0000

Steve didn’t like the font.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:12:31 +0000

Even if it is the result of AT&T, Apple should have enough respect for its developers to at least notify them of “what and why” their application was pulled.

Pretty fucking shitty on Apple’s part if you ask me. Although, it probably won’t stop me from getting a new iPhone. lol

By: pat

pat — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:02:02 +0000

How about Apple make a real platform for developers. If they reject apps and remove apps because they compete with their offerings, they might as well not even have the appstore. They should just have a suggestion box where people submit ideas on applications apple should develop on the iPhone. That would make them happy.

By: Aaron Stannard

Aaron Stannard — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:16:32 +0000

Maybe the App competes with a service provided by AT&T, as long as we’re thinking along the same lines. I know some mobile providers have a mobile movie look-up service; does AT&T have something similar?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:15:03 +0000

Listing his email address in plain text is pretty cruel especially on a site like this…. Hi spambots