Filed under: Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnage
iPhone App Graveyard: It's where unloved apps go
We know of a few iPhone applications that were unloved by Apple. What are we talking about? You know ... the cool iPhone applications that developers make -- then Apple doesn't approve of them, and they never see the light of day again (or maybe they do). Needless to say, there are probably more iPhone applications out there that we don't know about.
That is the basis of the iPhone Application Graveyard -- it is a website designed to document all of the rejected iPhone applications. The site is run by Peter Hosey of Growl and Adium fame. Developers can email him tidbits of information about their unloved application, and he will post it to the site.
Which rejected application do you wish you could have on the App Store?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
christopher said 2:13PM on 10-21-2008
hmmm,
netshare........
how about an app that ties to your dialer that lets you use a long distance phone card by dialing the card 800 number, then enters the code, then puts you back in your contact list for the actual dial.........
nice
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Tim Brazer said 2:17PM on 10-21-2008
What was the name of that application? I Am Rich?
I want that one back! 8^)
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Kev Orng said 2:27PM on 10-21-2008
I kinda hope PullMyFinger re-emerges on the Blackberry store as "The Raspberry"
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Dave Wood said 2:30PM on 10-21-2008
netshare!
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Tim said 2:36PM on 10-21-2008
how about a graveyard for apps that developers themselves have abandoned, like Pennies?
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craig said 3:15PM on 10-21-2008
yeah, whats with that? have they actually come out and said it's been abandoned or what?
Dave said 3:00PM on 10-21-2008
Battery details app
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craig said 3:15PM on 10-21-2008
iLive... it was slow, but purrdy.
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Aron T said 3:32PM on 10-21-2008
I always thought Friendbook looked intriguing. Thanks to the magic of jailbreaking I know that it is!
Here's to hoping Apple implements some (or all) of the functionality that Friendbook had.
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PSM said 3:34PM on 10-21-2008
I'm surprised not to see Phonesaber. That was one of the more high-profile ones.
I wish more of these rejected developers would make their apps available on Cydia. I guess maybe they're thinking in the future they might be able to release them again and don't want to burn the bridge?
Can anyone enlighten me as to why it seems so few of the rejected devs go the jailbreak route?
P.S. I want to have the babies of all the PDANet devs.
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Peter Hosey said 8:52PM on 10-21-2008
PhoneSaber is still available under another name: Lightsaber Unleashed.
They pulled the app themselves in response to a trademark claim from Lucasfilm. (That already disqualifies it from the Graveyard, which is only for apps that Apple has killed.) Then, they worked with Lucasfilm to re-release it as an official tie-in.
Here's the App Store link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=283265667
Eric S. Mueller said 7:44PM on 10-21-2008
I agree with Tim. I wish Apple had let I Am Rich stick around. I was hoping to grab it when it eventually went on sale :-P In a stroke of irony, I Am Rich was ported to Windows Mobile as freeware (apparently not by the original developer), but it's missing the Mantra. I have it running on my BlackJack.
I wondered if that podcast application was any good. Too bad it "duplicated iTunes functionality" and Apple pulled it due to some internal insecurity issues. I think a 3rd party mail application would be nice, especially one that works in landscape mode. Though I use my BlackJack II as my primary device, I do like to read email and surf on my iPod Touch when wi-fi is available.
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robb said 8:25PM on 10-21-2008
Other than Netshare, the podcast one and perhaps Mail Wrangler (which I haven't seen) it looks like a pretty uniform field of crap.
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