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Apple's App Rejections Get Curiouser
Apple's App Store rejections are making less and less sense. The latest victim, Cast Catcher, is a streaming Internet radio application in the same vein as AOL Radio and Pandora--both of which have been available through the App Store almost since its inception.
CastCatcher 1.3 was rejected, according to an Apple statement posted by return7 , because:
"CastCatcher Internet Radio cannot be posted to the App Store because it is transferring excessive volumes of data over the cellular network, which as outlined in the iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.15, is prohibited"
This despite the similarity of other streaming applications still available, and despite the fact that several previous iterations of CastCather were approved.
Even stranger: CastCatcher 1.2 is still available in iTunes. It makes us wonder: where is this flip-flop approval is coming from? Is AT&T, which might now be wondering what its gotten itself into with the data hungry iPhone 3G, applying pressure? Is this yet another example of what many believe is an already overtaxed AT&T network?
There are countries and suppliers outside the US.
The networks(esp European ones) do NOT have the capacity issues of AT&T having 3G networks 5 years more developed than at&T.
when its killed on the US store cant we keep them on ours as we don't have the issues relating to these pulled apps as our networks have the capacity.. as networks are built assuming each user will take on average 1GB per month!!
Apple should put the pressure back on AT&T not pull apps that AT&T can not cope with nut other networks can,
Orange and O2 an t-mobile in Europe for France, Ireland, UK and germanic countries...
I think more thought needs to be put into these article postings.
I don't think most iPhone users would be that data intensive. Mostly using email and texts anyways.
- by poortom1004 November 12, 2008 8:03 AM PST
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