Re: [Enigma-devel] Enigma on iPhone

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10127333-37.html
'CNET's own David Carnoy has a new detective thriller out called Knife
Music, but you won't find it on the App Store.'

http://www.osnews.com/story/20455/Apple_Not_Accepting_Opera_Mini_on_iPhone
No Opera in the iPhone AppStore.

http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/iphone/apples_arrogant_app_store_developer_policies.html
'Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it
duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.'

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/iphone-app-tweetie-rejected-for-user-generated-content.ars
'Apple rejected Tweetie 1.3, an update to atebits' popular Twitter
client for the iPhone'

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496544,00.html
'Apple rejects South Park iPhone Application' (by South Park Studios)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/07/apple-rejects-obama-trampoline-iphone-app-leaves-us-puzzled/
'The application was a harmless game that let you select a known U.S.
politician (both republicans and democrats) and have him/her jump a
virtual trampoline.'

http://angelo.dinardi.name/2008/09/20/mailwrangler-and-the-apple-app-store/
'Your application duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone
application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added
functionality, which will lead to user confusion'

... and so on.
I can understand very well that developers are backing off from
developing for the iPhone, just to end up being denied publishing by
Apple.

best regards,
Erich Schubert