iPhone Hacks

Apple Rejects iPhone Book App - Knife Music for Objectionable Content

David Carnoy, an editor at CNet and author of emergency-room psychodrama called Knife Music had hired iPhone app developer Alexandru Brie to release his book as an iPhone app on the App Store using Brie's TouchBooks Reader software.

However, when Alexandru Brie submitted the app book to the App Store for approval, it was rejected by Apple for objectionable content.

Was iPhone App - Peeps Unfairly Rejected by Apple for using Unpublished APIs?

Apple has rejected, removed or banned quite a few iPhone apps from the App Store since its launch.

It looks like another iPhone app called Peeps has just joined that list. The app visually organizes contacts from your iPhone's address book into an animated photo album and gives iPhone users a coverflow-like interface to browse through the contacts.

Rejected iPhone App - Pull My Finger Makes a Comeback; Available on the App Store

The iPhone app - Pull My Finger which was rejected by Apple back in September due to "limited utility" has just made a comeback.

Apple has just approved the iPhone app and its available on the App Store indicating that Apple is either getting a little lenient with its restrictions or folks who are approving the apps are gaining some sense of humor.

Apple Approves CastCatcher Version Update (v1.3)

We had reported last week that Return 7's CastCatcher, the Internet Radio app that streams shoutcast streams directly to your iPhone had got rejected by Apple due to excessive bandwidth consumption over cellular network.

We have good news, Return 7 reports that Apple has now approved their update to CastCatcher.

CastCatcher Radio App Rejected Due to Excessive Bandwidth Consumption over Cellular Network

Return 7 developer of iPhone Apps such as CastCatcher and BillMinder has recently published a post on their blog claiming that Apple has rejected a version update to their CastCatcher radio app due to excessive bandwidth consumption over cellular network.

Apple has rejected or banned quite a few iPhone apps from the App Store but this is the first time we have heard about a version update being rejected by Apple.

iPhone version of Opera Mini Will Not be Coming to the App Store

Saul Hansell from New York Times who had interviewed Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera had quoted him saying that the iPhone version of the App Store was rejected by Apple has got some clarifications from Mr. von Tetzchner on the issue.

Therefore, if you were an Opera fan and were hoping for their iPhone app to make it to the App Store, then there is some bad news as Opera has halted the development of their app due to iPhone's SDK agreement.

iPhone version of Opera Mini is Not Rejected from the App Store? [Updated]

We had reported that Apple had rejected the iPhone version of Opera Mini. It was widely speculated that the app could have got rejected because it was a direct competition to iPhone's Safari browser.

That might not be completely accurate as John Gruber of Daring Fireball who had first reported the news has done some more digging and is reporting that though the news that Opera had developed an iPhone version of Opera Mini was true, they haven't submitted the iPhone app to Apple for it be rejected based on information from some informed sources. 

Apple Rejects iPhone version of Opera Mini from the App Store; Maybe Not Yet [Updated]

Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera told New York Times in an interview that a version of Opera Mini developed for the iPhone was rejected by Apple from the App Store.

The iPhone version of Opera Mini would have been a direct competitor to iPhone's Safari browser.

It has been a while since we have last heard of an iPhone App getting rejected from the App Store.

Did Apple Block Ad-Hoc Distribution of Podcaster?

The rejection saga for Alex Sokirynsky, the developer of Podcaster, an iPhone app that manages and plays podcasts continues. His app was first rejected by Apple because "it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes."

So, Alex decided to bypass Apple and distribute the app via ad-hoc App distribution to an iPhone user who donated $9.99.

However, Alex has run into trouble with Apple again, he had posted (post has been removed) on this blog that Apple has rescinded his authority to provision new ad-hoc licenses for his iPhone app. So did Apple really block ad-hoc distribution of Podcaster?

Apple Bans Tethering iPhone App NetShare from the App Store

I have some disappointing news for all those waiting for NetShare to be available in the App Store again, Nullriver has just posted on their blog that their iPhone App - NetShare that briefly brought 3G/EDGE Tethering for iPhone only to be pulled down from the App Store after being available for 20 minutes and then available again briefly only to be pulled down again has been banned by Apple.