Camera+ pulled from App Store for 'volume button as camera shutter' workaround

Hey guys, I have a problem. I downloaded Camera+ the night before it was pulled from the App Store. But then yesterday, upon moving around apps into folders and what not, I accidentally deleted Camera+ off my iPhone. I also didn't get a chance to back it up yet either, so it's not on my computer. I tried searching of ways to get it back, no luck.

I was reading this thread and I see that many people have bought the Camera+ app from the App Store. I was wondering if anyone can send me the .ipa? My theory is if I paid for it, and someone sends me the actual app, I can install it on my computer, and activate it using my Apple ID.

So if anyone could just send me the actual app, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!

Steve Jobs is an arrogant putz.

I enabled it. And I am sooooooo not confused. I'm happy. Listen up Apple, your users aren't as beligerantly stupid as your antenna engineers are.

I have had each of the last three iPhones (missed the first because I was under contract with Verizon and a crippled RAZR...still don't know why people want Verizon so bad when they weren't any better for me than AT&T has been), and the iPhone has replaced my need for a camera. When our family needs a "real" camera, my wife has a Canon DSLR. With all sincerity, for the majority of my camera needs, the iPhone works well, and the iPhone 4's camera is only better.

Camera+ is a great app in that it combines the functions of several different iPhone camera/picture apps into one location. I'm not a big fan of their pre-camera roll "lightbox," or the fact that you can't choose a service to upload your pictures to (they are highlighting their own service). So I would use Camera+, but most of the time I'd simply open Apple's own Camera app.

That was until Camera+'s latest update. Two features now make Camera+ better than the stock Apple camera app. First, Camera+ now allows you to adjust both focus and exposure in two spots...making for MUCH better pictures. Second, I didn't think the volume button feature was that big of a deal...then I tried it. Touching the iPhone 4 volume button makes taking a picture so much better. Tapping the screen never felt right. I understand Apple wanting minimal buttons on the outside of the device. Both of these features should be bought by Apple from Tap Tap Tap and implemented into the next iOS. By the way, I hope Tap Tap Tap received some money from Apple based on the eerie resemblance of iBooks to Classics...

Hmm... couldn't someone create a photo app that could listen to the audio input port via the headphone connector for a pre-defined "click" from an external dongle that's just a button mounted on a headphone plug that generates the sound through induction? I doubt Apple could prevent developers from merely listening to audio input...

Dave - if you update your app, anything that is not present in there will be deleted in the code. No code to support it - no way for the functionality to work.

Got it. And I will not 'update' to the crippled version.

Yes. Your apps don't evolve and gain pieces of functionality. You are deleting and replacing an app each time you update.

Warning: this comment is in support of Apple's decision.
1. User confusion - I've used Sony-Ericsson and seen Nokia cameraphones with dedicated shutter buttons where the volume keys were used it zoom. Think about it and the +/- symbols make sense for that operation. The iPhone's missing that dedicated shutter button an that's what causes the confusion.
2. Defending the principle - This is like copyright where every offense needs to get the banhammer early on. Apple is showing that it's willing to treat everyone from individual developers to major App Store development houses with equal veracity, at least for now. Apple's marking their territory in a big way by making examples of deviants.
Camera+ should just have a Dev mode with some user-requested features available as an in-app purchase with plenty of warning.

Glad I downloaded it already. I really love being able to take a picture with the volume buttons.