Archive for July, 2010
Jailbreaking *is* legal – US Library of Congress
The US Copyright Office has declared that jailbreaking your iPhone is legal under Copyright law / DMCA – (although note: Apple could still go to court to challenge this): “the Copyright Office rejected Apple’s claim that copyright law prevents people from installing unapproved programs on iPhones: “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make [...]
LIBRARY REJECTED: Unity3D (for private APIs. Again!)
Oops. Looks like Unity isn’t doing enough regression testing / unit testing on their codebase. The same piece of .NET that got Unity rejected – temporarily – almost a year ago has resurfaced in the Unity 3.0 Beta: cannot be posted to the App Store because it is using private or undocumented APIs: Spi Symbols [...]
ACCEPTED: Handy Light (despite concealing banned features)
(NB: in the time between researching this and publishing it, someone at Apple read the news – or was tipped-off – and the app has already been pulled) The iPhone is great – unlimited internet access, a decent browser, email, etc. It’s got an almost fully-fledged computer inside there – including the ability to share [...]
LIBRARY ACCEPTED: Titanium, Unity3D (despite being “not C”)
Too many examples to list individually, but in light of Steve Jobs’ anti-Flash rant a few months back, Appcelerator is claiming no slowdown in the number of apps approved that use Titanium: “In fact, we’ve had more apps accepted since this whole thing started on April 8, than before. So that puts it in the [...]
PULLED: 41 of Top-50 Books apps (fraud + hacked iTunes accounts)
From Day 1 of the iPhone App Store, it’s been possible and profitable to push your apps up the rankings by buying them in bulk yourself (requires you to buy mulitple iTunes accounts). Now an Asian developer has gone one further, by hacking other people’s accounts to do the purchasing: The rankings in the books [...]