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I think my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things. I don't
by bphogan 15y ago
I think my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things. I don't like the precedent that's set by "oops we decided we don't like your thing so it's going bye-bye".
If Apple can't stop stuff like this at the onset, you have to start asking other questions, like how closely they are looking at the apps they let in. Is it really a safe walled garden?
Or is it simply "Hey we don't like that app anymore. It competes with us somehow. So get out."
Sadly I suspect both of those cases are true.
- Samuel_Michon 15y ago"my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things." If you bought it, you get to keep it. I actually have a half dozen apps that after I bought it have since been removed from the App Store.
- bphogan 15y agoI do too. But I have to restore from my backups. I don't get to grab it from the store again. And bugs won't get fixed, OS incompatibilities (read: iOS 5 fixes) won't get in there either. If only there were a way around the Apple store.... some way to install any app I wanted....
- tptacek 15y agoNeither of those cases are germane here. There was no way Apple was going to allow this app into the store.
- bphogan 15y agoI thought "pulled" meant it was pulled out of the store. Not rejected.