We have seen iPhone applications that claim to read your destiny, fate and fortune. There are even tarot cards applications. Description of some apps claim that they can read your mind and can solve even your problems. Those are not the bestest apps but are meant to be the funnest ones capable of taking you for a deceiving ride.
Almost every application description in the App Store has a pinch of exaggeration and self praise. You get fooled most often. Mirror free from Inner Four, Inc is one application that does exactly as the developer described. It does absolutely nothing!
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Why do developers grumble about Apple? For the seeming autocratic monitoring and screening of applications before deploying them in the App Store. Those people who develop for the Android are not fated to face the iron fist. Google has left the door of its online application store wide open. Developers can code anything else and throw them into the Google Store for users to find out what to install and what to ignore.
The likes of Slasher, Murderdrome, MailWrangler, NetShare, Pull my finger, iBoobs, iShoes, Obama Trampoline, and many of those apps, which were rejected by Apple could find very respectable Read More...
Removing and restoring of applications on the App Store is an old story, but we are still trying to figure our exactly why apps are removed or restored. Keeping track of disappearance of Apps, here we give you the master list of removed and restored applications.
I Am Rich: This application was retailed at $999.99 and did nothing. The developer just made a cool $6000 in one day and the app vanished from the App Store after purloining 8 rich iPhone users, at least one whom purchased the app by mistake. The application displayed a red glowing gemstone a kind of Read More...
Simple. Make an app that is staggeringly priced. So staggering that the price itself (and absolutely nothing else) will stand up and cry for itself. Put it on the App Store and count on the chances that some of the people visiting the store are doped. If you are not convinced, read the Los Angeles Times. The amazingly useless, featureless and audaciously priced “I Am Rich” app did attract customers and fetch a cool $5,600 for its developer, Mr. Armin Heinrich overnight:
…curious aristocrats -- eight of them -- had purchased it. Six people from the United States, one from Germany Read More...
To battle with spyware, viruses, malware and any materials deemed indecent, Apple is moving ahead to implement kill switch mechanism. Kill switch will be able to snuff out offending applications installed on the device of users.
Tightening the control rope on developers, Apple has planned even to revoke the license of developers on determining that any of the applications deployed by them are malicious. Revoking of license involves removing all signed up applications from the App Store of the concerned developer. Apple has the sole authority in making the decision on this.
When the kill switch is implemented the users’ device will Read More...
When applications are taken in and out of the App Store, we have no clue about the reasons, they just disappear. We have reported this concern earlier and we still don’t know the rule of Apple regarding this. There is no trace of NetShare and BoxOffice till now and I am Rich too has mysteriously gone missing. Are these applications removed for being malicious? No one knows.
There is this report that Apple now has a mechanism in place to track offending applications. There is a dedicated URL
https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps
For now, the page just displays:
{ "Date Generated" = "2008-08-07 06:27:31 Etc/GMT"; "BlackListedApps" = { Read More...
