Yet Another App Pulled From App Store
Posted by Dave on August 4, 2008 at 9:27 am PST
Following the events surrounding the mysterious disappearance and eventual reappearance of NetShare from the App Store, yet another seemingly harmless application has been pulled.
This time around it’s BoxOffice, an application that allows users to search for local movie times, that has reached its premature end at the hands of Apple.
One developer of the application has been quoted, saying:
“Apple pulled the app yesterday without giving my any notification that they were doing it, or what their justification was for removing it.
I’ve tried to contact them about the issue, but it’s been a complete dead end. If anyone has a useful contact number for apple, please let me know.
I’m in regular contact with all my data providers, and none of them have had an issue with my app. Indeed, the response was the exact opposite. They like my app and have even asked if i would do custom application work for them in the future. Furthermore, all the data i use is licensed by the owners as ‘free for non commercial use’. i.e. precisely what BoxOffice is.
So i’m stuck here not knowing what has happened, or what i can do about it. If any of you have any ideas, please let me know. You can respond here, but i’d actually appreciate a reply at cyrusn@stwing.upenn.edu since i probably won’t check back here that often.”
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the whole thing is the apparent randomness at which these Applications are being pulled and then reinstated.
