Last week, we had reported that iPhone and iPad apps with Dropbox integration were being rejected for violating Apple’s App Store review guidelines.
The integration included an option that allowed users to signup for Dropbox and purchase additional storage. According to Apple’s App Store review guidelines, developers who offer paid subscriptions either have to use Apple’s in-app purchase feature or need to ensure that there is no link pointing users to external purchasing mechanisms.
The Next Web reports that Apple has rejected a number of apps with Dropbox integration.
Apps with Dropbox integration can either authenticate through the installed Dropbox app or opens a webpage to let users log in to their Dropbox account.
Yesterday, Cult Of Mac reported about “Girls Around Me” app – a creepy geo-location app that used data from Facebook and Foursquare to reveal location of women nearby without their knowledge.
Back in August 2011, Apple announced that it was phasing out developer access to unique device identifier (UDID) and requested developers a unique identifier specific for their app.
Back in January, True Knowledge had released Evi – an iPhone app that brought Siri-like functionality to non-iPhone 4S devices.
Few developers, aiming to make some quick bucks out of the App Store, blatantly copied a bunch of popular apps like Tiny Wings, Temple Run and Words with Friends and put it for sale on the store.
Some of you may have realised that Whatsapp – a popular messenger app and one of our must-have iPhone apps has disappeared from the App Store.
While there are jailbreak tweaks available to kill processes running in the background to free up memory, did you know that there was an app briefly available in the App Store that allowed users to kill processes running in the background or at least that is what it claimed to do.
PostSecret, an app to share secrets anonymously with others, has been voluntarily removed from the App Store by the developer due to misuse. The app was launched in September last year, and quickly climbed to the top of the sales charts with more than 2 million secrets shared.
A couple of days ago, Apple pulled down an app that allowed users to create fake driver’s license on the request of a U.S. Senator. The app which was on the App Store for over two years, could apparently be misused for illegal activities.
