The latest injured party in Apple ’s App Store blacklisting is Podcaster . A native app work up according to exact SDK specification , it goes beyond its creator ’s web - tie cyclosis - only Podcaster.fm by letting you download and manage podcasts in a nice straight interface . subtle , correct ? Apple thought so . consort toPodcaster ’s blog , Apple at least explained why it booted Podcaster from the App Store : “ Since Podcaster assists in the dispersion of podcasts , it repeat the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes . ” The funny affair to David Chartier at Ars — who broke the news — is that so many other sanction apps duplicate Apple - made functions , like the computer and the stopwatch . The funny affair to me is that podcasting was a grassroots matter that Apple coopted only after it had botch up up on the internet . This has nothing to do with playing back right of first publication - protected music — it ’s just a managing director for freely distribute internet cognitive content . What next , Apple banish other people from building software program to get at third - political party web page via the iPhone ? Oh wait … that ’s pretty much already occur . If you still need to hold out the Podcaster app , you may sign uphere , and the developer will e - mail you back with instruction . They say it will be distributedad hoc — so no breakout required — for a contribution of $ 9.99 , but if it gets popular , we do n’t know how the advertizement - hoc dispersion system would hold up . ( I cerebrate there was a limit point of 100 for that , but perchance I ’m wrong . ) [ Ars Technica ]
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