Apple's unpredictable rules for iPhone applications

If you are thinking of writing applications for the iPhone, you might want to read this story first. The New York Times has a report on an Alex Sokirynsky, who spent two months working nights and weekends to write an application that was eventually rejected for its web store. The reason: The "Podcaster" application that he wrote, which allows users to listen to and watch Podcasts on their iPhones, "duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes." This is strange on two fronts: first, this software has other features, one of which other than allows users to stream podcasts so they can also download them first for listening later. Second, there already are all sorts of applications that duplicate various aspects of its own software.

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