3rd Party iPhone Email App Rejected By Apple. What Next?
September 21st, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
Angelo DiNardi writes that he developed an alternative email client for the iPhone called “MailWrangler” only to have it rejected by Apple’s App Store because it “duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion.”
I wonder whether an iPhone-specific version of the Firefox web browser would similarly be rejected because it’s too similar in functionality to the iPhone’s built-in Safari browser. If so, this reminds me a little (and I mean just a little) of United States v. Microsoft.1
- 87 F. Supp. 2d 30 (D.D.C. 2000). [↩]
Exactly. More and more cases of rejected apps, because the “duplicate” Apple apps. What’s that? Developers get screwed for their hard work. On this point, Google already made s statement: Anyone can sell his software on their marketplace. Nice posting, and so true.