Apple kills another iPhone app – this time for competing with Mail.app

Apple, this is getting silly. Slashdot is reporting that Apple has removed another iPhone app from the App Store.

MailWrangler is an application for checking multiple Google Mail accounts simultaneously. The app was removed for “duplicating the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion.”

This seems not to be the case, and either Apple has misunderstood the nature of the MailWrangler app or it is trying to stop it from competing with its own products.

Apple has previously removed Podcaster for ‘duplicating’ the functionality of iTunes.

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