An iPhone developer has had their app removed from the App Store because it - in Apple’s words - “duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes”.
The app - Podcaster - simply allows the use to download podcasts directly to the iPhone. Understandably disappointed by the ruling, the developer - Almerica - has made the app available by the ad-hoc distribution method here.
Apple’s decision has lead another coder - Fraser Speirs to declare that he will no longer write apps for the iPhone until the company can clarify their policies, writing
You have to wonder if Apple wants the App Store to be a museum of poorly-designed nibware written by dilettante Mac OS X/iPhone OS switcher-developers and hobbyist students. That’s what will happen if companies who intend to invest serious resources in bringing an original idea to the App Store are denied a reasonable level of confidence in their expectation of profit.
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