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Old 12-28-2010, 03:56 PM   #165
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Originally Posted by Redcard View Post
For now you can, yes.

But Apple has a history of knocking products they disagree with or are competing with off their system. That's why there's no real web browser competitor, and why anything Flash App related has been ejected from the app store as violation of the developer rules.

Google Voice for the longest time was denied because it mimiced and people at Apple were afraid it'd allow people to use data instead of minutes, and hurt their deals with AT&T. Only after AT&T went to a limited data plan was Google Voice allowed in.

One day, they might decide that Ibooks should be all anyone needs, and goodbye all the other apps.

I love Apple, don't get me wrong. But I also know that having an app that does something (I have about 30 apps on my iphone 4 that simply don't exist anymore in the apple store.. they've been retro-banned) is not as important when you have a gatekeeper telling you what can and cannot be on a device.
What apps do you have that no longer exist in the app store?
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