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Apple denies bittorrent remote control app
Apple has done it again, this time wielding the ban hammer on Maza Digital's Drivetrain, an iPhone app that allows a user to remotely control his or her Transmission downloads.
What gives, Apple? According to the notice sent to Maza, "This category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store."
That's some pretty backwards thinking for a company that prides itself on modern, progressive products. Drivetrain is not a torrent client. On top of that, not even Transmission is to blame for what a user chooses to download.
I'm with Torrent Freak on this one - someone better tell Apple about WebUI and Clutch so they can start crippling Safari on our handsets.
I wonder if Apple is aware that some users use iTunes to sync music that has been obtained through illegal means?
[via Torrent Freak]
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Subscribe to commentsrandyMay 11th 2009 4:19PM
Hay your the one who promoted the iPhone in the first place.
on another note
To be realistic most people won't care for this app because most, not all but most iPhone owners are idiots.
KLMay 11th 2009 5:16PM
orly? how do you figure?
shibathedogMay 11th 2009 6:59PM
I've yet to talk to a single person who knows how to use anything but it's most basic functions. I'm talking about a lot of people here too because almost everyone at my college has one. It makes me wonder why they didn't just buy a much cheaper phone that would have done all that stuff (Calling, Texting, Taking pictures) for them as well. Oh yeah....Because its "cool."
VotreMay 13th 2009 3:25PM
I don't know why this surprises people. Apple has always made up "The Rules" as they go along. And their hypocrisy is legendary. Otherwise how could they they still claim to make a computer for "the rest of us" while still pandering to the worst elitist element out there?
XerloqMay 11th 2009 4:46PM
Slippery Slope. Hypocritical. 'Nuff said.
iGateMay 11th 2009 6:57PM
i like your final comment, "I wonder if Apple is aware that some users use iTunes to sync music that has been obtained through illegal means?"
EvenioMay 11th 2009 8:48PM
Apple would have to discontinue literally every single product it sells, hardware and software alike, and shut down the company to prevent people from maybe, possibly using their products to infringe someone's copyright. And then Microsoft would become the totalitarian world government it already believes it is. Camo-clad Linux freedom fighters would be too busy arguing about which hand signs to standardize on to stop them. Every standard and protocol used by the human race would be replaced, one by one, with an incompatible, Microsoft-controlled knockoff. Creativity would be suppressed; society would stagnate and finally collapse under its own dead weight.
DON'T YOU SEE? Apple has to scrap the App Store approval process and design a better system...to SAVE THE WORLD!
kdashhiryuMay 11th 2009 9:07PM
save the app store save the world!
mpnordlandMay 11th 2009 9:25PM
you know evenios coment is a little far out microsoft has done some collaboration with novel to create Moonlight, a linux version of silverlight
so micro soft is becoming a little more open
mpnordlandMay 11th 2009 9:28PM
and will not just wipe all the standardized stuff away so that it can make more money and any ways apples aproval system has alot to do with apples reputation. you don't want them to just upload crapware or malware
gddfgMay 12th 2009 4:32AM
... and that is exactly the reason why having a mobile OS that does not allow the user to freely install whatever he likes sucks.
Christina WarrenMay 12th 2009 11:50AM
Apple has APPROVED Torrent queuing apps before, making this even more stupid. I just looked through my deluge of TUAW mail:
Trackr (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305665024&mt=8)
It's $2.99 but it does the same thing.
Interesting that they also do standard RSS feeds, which was possibly the workaround.
Kai CherryMay 12th 2009 6:42PM
C-Money!
Hit me up...have *I* got a story to tell *you* about an app that was rejected for this Insane Clown Reason.
Ask Mike Rose about it...
-K
Jash SayaniMay 13th 2009 9:12AM
Cydia Store to the rescue !
yogendraMay 20th 2009 1:59PM
this is very cool ipod "I wonder if Apple is aware that some users use iTunes to sync music that has been obtained through illegal means?"