Comments on: New iPhone feature added: free application removal!

By: mark

mark — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:55:54 +0000

I still hae my iPhone but I bought a Tilt when this news came out. All those things you were counting on someday…a real GPS app, Slinplayer, etc…none of that is a given anymore. Who knows what Apple will do? Even worse than those apps never appearing would be having them in the store and, months later, Apple deleting them from the phone. No no, screw that. I’ve also stopped developing for the iPhone because this is all obviously about money. AT&T has a LOT more than the authors of NetShare (or most other apps, I’m sure) and if AT&T says it disappears, by god it disappears. If I write something and, months later, someone else releases something similiar and doesn’t want me eating into sales, can they send Apple a check and I disappear? Who’s to say? Actually, Apple is and they’re not saying a damn thing. So screw ‘em. Until I have some assurance that developing for the iPhone isn’t a waste of my time and energy, I’m putting it into something else. Get your sh*t together soon, Apple. It’s not like you were first or the best.

By: Peter Norman

Peter Norman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:34:18 +0000

Hi Kevin!

DaringFireball has a short article that may interest you:
http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/core_location_blacklist

Roger Nolan asked about this very point in his comment above - though it got lost in the 'noise'.

Hopefully even more information will appear that will clarify whats actually going on with the 'blacklist' issue you posted about.

Rock on!
peter

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:50:07 +0000

At the very least it looks like another bug to me. Does anything actually work on the iPhone?

By: Sumocat

Sumocat — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:25:11 +0000

bluemonq: "it seems a little bit unsavory that during a sync/backup, iTunes can decide to remove the software" -- if there was a decision to remove the software during sync. He downloaded it on Saturday. Reports of Netshare being pulled the second time came in Friday night. I can believe the file was still there for him to download, but I did everything he did just at different times, as did others. Unless Terry is being singled out, it looks like a fluke.

By: bluemonq

bluemonq — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:58:49 +0000

@Sumocat: Even if it was a case of timing, it seems a little bit unsavory that during a sync/backup, iTunes can decide to remove the software. He *was* at some point able to use the software, and it's now disappeared.

I will have to admit, it's a little curious that nobody else has reported the same thing; what are the odds that NOBODY else downloaded it OTA when it was offered for a second time and then synced the phone with the computer after it was pulled?

By: Sumocat

Sumocat — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:13:10 +0000

Bruno: You obviously didn't bother to investigate the URL posted on iPhoneAtlas.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:57:22 +0000

Sumocat: Are you referring to the "Malicious Software Removal Tool"? That is a tool that removes known malware, hardly comparable - and even then you can choose not to run it.

By: Sumocat

Sumocat — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:38:21 +0000

T Man: For all the speculation that Apple could remove apps, we seem to have forgotten that Microsoft already does. Microsoft releases a software removal tool with every Windows update.

By: Roger Nolan

Roger Nolan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:56:12 +0000

Why would a general purpose blacklisting file be referenced from CoreLocation? Isn't it more likely to be a location blacklist?

By: T Man

T Man — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:44:57 +0000

Well it will be interesting to see where this goes and what the full story is. But I'm sure everyone would give MS the same benefit of the doubt if something like this happened, right? Right? All I hear are crickets...