Your Opinion on Apple Rejection of Podcaster App?
I wanted to write about this story last week about an app that got rejected from Apple app store The app called Podcaster, which provides the way to download podcasts via cell network or WiFi bypassing iTunes.
Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
When Apple opened the app store, it was clear, the policy was to prevent Porn and bandwidth hog app to be present on the store. But later we discovered all apps that might get in Apple or its partner business interests (e.g. Skype) might be also part of that group.
The above justification seems to imply the latter reason but the answer should have been on the first reason of “bandwidth hog”.
But in reality, I think Apple might look further on the business side. Let’s say one day Podcast will become paid contents, would this kind of app will be able to create another store outside of Apple to sell Podcast, which will clearly conflict with Apple business…
Of course Apple choose to give a short easy answer, which created a big storm among the developers regarding Apple policy.
Please chime in!
So this means that, if I have an iPhone and I am traveling I can’t listen to the Wall Street Journal Today podcast because I can’t dock the phone on my computer at home where iTunes resides. Right?
As a traveling man, I’ll stick with Windows Mobile.
Right, it sounds so absurd for Windows Mobile users, doesn’t it?
Or Symbian users as well.
It is like the old Avant Go, which syncronized compressed pages to your Palm PDA before you got on the train, but was worthless if you were overnight somewhere.
But, you know Apple, it’s all about CONTROL!