Apple: Sorry, Those BitTorrent Apps Were Approved by Mistake

Ernesto
September 11, 2012
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For a minute we got excited. Apple approved two BitTorrent Apps in recent weeks, suggesting that the company had lifted its ban on file-sharing applications. But today came the inevitable disappointment. Apple just informed one of the developers that it made a mistake during the approval process, and the company is about to pull his BitTorrent app from the App Store.

conttrol Just a few days ago we published an article suggesting that Apple had lifted the ban on BitTorrent apps.

This spring the company gave its blessing to a remote control app for the Transmission BitTorrent client, and this surprise approval was followed by another for a similar uTorrent app last week.

This was a fairly remarkable move since Apple previously told developers that their apps were not allowed because “this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights.”

However, as it turns out the excitement was only temporary.

Craig Donnelly, developer of the Conttrol app for uTorrent, informs TorrentFreak that he received a phone call from Apple’s headquarters yesterday.

“Got a call there a little earlier from California,” Craig says. “It seems Apple are not ok with apps that have anything to do with BitTorrent.”

“The nice girl on the other end of phone said that Conttrol had been approved by mistake and Apple were sorry for the inconvenience but apps of this nature are not allowed in the store,” he adds.

So that’s it. BitTorrent apps are still banned by Apple, indefinitely.

While we haven’t heard from the Transmission RPC developer, we assume that he got a similar call.

Apple’s mistake is not just a blow to the developers who worked for weeks on their apps, but also to the users who spent hard cash to buy them. Some Transmission RPC users bought the app months ago and will soon have it wiped from their iOS devices.

Craig has now decided to sell his app at a discount for as long as it lasts, but that’s still a risky investment with the pending ban. Apple told him that his app will be pulled within a few days.

For those who don’t know yet, Google’s Android Play store is more reasonable when it comes to accepting file-sharing apps. And according to Apple some Android phones are indistinguishable from the iPhone, so…

Update: Both apps have been pulled by Apple now.

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- http://twitter.com/DeborahLamber14 Deborah Lambert
  
  I think the feds need to step in and tell Apple “Allow installs on a case-by-case basis from other, known safe or just as safe, app repositories!” http://Wonderfuliphone5.blogspot.com
- Guest
  
  the correct term, is very homosexual…
  
  hmm did wtc
  - http://twitter.com/Letharpf Letharpf
    
    Joanne explained I’m alarmed that any one can profit $5580 in 1 month on the network. have you look this(Click on menu Home)
  - http://twitter.com/Letharpf Letharpf
    
    …
    goo.gl/B6S4o
  - Hdfg
    
    android has had fully functional torrents client for years. not just “remote controls” for you torrent client at home.. but full torrent clients on your phone. why does nobody recognize this. fuck apple.
- Steve_Jobs
  
  Fuck Apple, fuck the iPhone, fuck the iPad.
  
  The management at this Cupertino company are a bunch fucking losers, who often engage in a three-some frolic, ass-licking MPAA and MAFIAA.
  - someone else
    
    Sorry, they DON’T have an app for that.
    
    ;p
  - Hogspace
    
    Looking on the bright side, since Jobs died the company has been inching backwards, it won’t last for ever.
    Wish we had a government that had the knowledge and the guts to declare that only Open Source software was fit to be sold to the public. Open and DRM free.
    - Guest
      
      All ideologies that are based around a single person instead of an idea will expire once that person has.
Midas

Bitchass mofos
- Guest321
  
  People really need to boycott this shitty company already.
  - Brandon Hope
    
    but their products are shiny!
    - iFag
      
      Those are shiny quality dildos. I buy them to shove myself. Perfect.
    - U Sure Bro?
      
      U mean its price tag are shiny I supposed?
    - Anon
      
      Shiny like Tim Cooks cock after his husband sucks it!
  - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
    
    Tens of millions already are. They buy phones and devices from other companies. Buy what you want and quit whining.
  - Lulz
    
    Eh? I’ve NEVER purchased an Apple product… never will. Over priced yuppy fanboi garbage. I can get Android devices cheaper, I can build three or four nice PC’s for the price of one Apple PC, and who needs that elitest attitude?
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DutchGuest

That’s what they get for buying Crapple products.
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

lol, figured. apple is not clever enough
Boblenton3

Again – America’s doing……”Hey Apple we are willing to pay you a nice sum and promote your Ipads if you get rid of torrent apps”
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  America? No, more like big media! Personally, I think the feds need to step in and tell Apple “Allow installs on a case-by-case basis from other, known safe or just as safe, app repositories!”
  - Guest321
    
    The feds need to step in and shut this company down so that no more ignorant people can be scammed.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      I haven’t seen them actively scamming people. Yes, their equipment is overpriced but it has a history of extreme reliability because Apple only uses the ‘best of the best’ parts in their systems from the best of the best makers.
    - Guest
      
      @
      Christopher Kidwell – You’re kidding right? I’m usually good with sarcasm.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Nope, not kidding. You have to give LINKS to times when people were scammed in order to prove yourself right. I’ve looked and I cannot see any instances where people have been scammed by Apple.
      There is a big brouhaha at the moment over “Impossible to reset your password on Apple devices!” but that’s coming from the hack a few weeks ago.
    - Netgrazer
      
      @google-6bb179a6b07a293b0dbe2e8887cdb03f:disqus Kidding about the “best components” at least?
      Numerous accounts of apple hardware failing miserably at its job, catching fire, etc. This combined with only 1 year warranty (which is illegal in europe so that doesn’t work for them) makes it a so-so brand for me.
      
      If I wanted to run this glorified linux of theirs i’d go OSX86 (hackintosh). But I like my eject function straightforward and my software open, so I don’t. [/anti-mac]
    - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
      
      I’d like to see the “Feds” step in and start fixing the US education system first. We’d have less commentary from dimbulbs such as yourself.
    - Guest321
      
      @google-6bb179a6b07a293b0dbe2e8887cdb03f:disqus ”Extreme reliability”. That’s just a big load of BS and you know it. Show me how they are any more reliable than say a Windows PC or a Samsung Android phone.
      
      They basically use the same parts and yet charge 2-3 times the price. It has been proved time and again and the proof is on their website itself where you can customize a Mac before purchasing. Just look at the price of each addon like extra 2gb RAM and extra 500gb HDD and compare that to market price. That is pure scam right there that you can charge any absurd amount you like and get away with it. Yes we can choose not to buy and the intelligent people actually don’t but scamming ignorant masses should be outlawed.
    - Lol
      
      ”‘ Christopher Kidwell 10 hours ago in reply to Guest321
      I
      haven’t seen them actively scamming people. Yes, their equipment is
      overpriced but it has a history of extreme reliability because Apple
      only uses the ‘best of the best’ parts in their systems from the best of
      the best makers. lol thats why the people who make the apple products in china are killing themselves rather than working. look it up before you talk jiberish that has been proven wrong.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Actually…most apple products are expensive because they like to use server hardware as standard – ECC Ram, xeons instead of ordinary intels…etc.
      
      Generally speaking most of apples products can and will last ten years easily. Problem is they cost twice as much and are still obsolete in specs after one year.
      
      Hence yes. they’re reliable. Their tech works.
      
      It’s just horribly overpriced, locked-in, and provided with the default assumption that the customer is an idiot luser. To some degree I sympathize. Most people would do better never to assume admin rights on their rig.
      
      And I personally think that if a consumer WANTS apple to treat him/her like a mindless moron in all respects, then apple is quite right in doing so.
    - Guest
      
      first off, the feds can’t tell a privately owned business what applications it has to approve on it’s software platform. also, you can’t really say it’s a scam either. they are selling what they’re advertising. a overpriced unix system in a shiny case, that has services designed around technology illiterates. the hipsters just jumped on it because no one else was, thus making it Non-mainstream and coooooool.
      
      “but it has a history of extreme reliability because Apple only uses the ‘best of the best’ parts”
      
      Apple has it’s parts made in china, no different from all other hardware vendors. this claim is 100% bullshit. elitemactechs*com/apple-recalls.html also look that the support forum. just saying “we eat the food and push the shit out our ass” doesn’t make it less shit then the other vendors.
- Rday
  
  I don’t have any Apple products, so I don’t know if they allow the web browser “Opera” to be installed or not. Opera has a built-in torrent utility, it’s very minimal as far as settings, but it works just fine. Maybe I shouldn’t mention this, they might ban Opera too. :)
http://twitter.com/fanSte1986 Stefan Emmerik

And uTorrent has uploaded their first Android version to Google Play. That’s one of the many reasons why people shouldn’t use iPhones/iPads.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utorrent.client
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  I don’t know…. iPad’s have a lot of software and apps on it that Android doesn’t have yet or that there are agreements where they cannot be ‘ported’ to other mobile OS’.
  
  I wouldn’t be willing to buy a NEW iPad but a used one might get a pickup from me.
  - Guest
    
    You really are an Apple fanboy. Oh dear.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Uh, no, I’m not. I’m just someone who does “Pro’s vs. Con’s” regularly. I don’t even OWN any Apple devices, computer or not.
    - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
      
      You really are a dolt. You think Apple sold 150 million iPhones in one year because of a TV commercial? Don’t be such an idiot.
    - Anyone
      
      @hisshadow:disqus
      and Samsung alone sold double that
      plus all the other Android manufacturers
      
      there is currently no logical reason to go for an iPhone instead of a similarly priced (or even cheaper) Android phone
      you simply get superior hardware and software with Android, and you can mostly do with it what you want, you don’t need to ask Daddy Apple for permission if you want to install something
    - Ug
      
      Looks more like an iFag, very annoying…
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Not really. If Kidwell was an apple fanboy he’d be frothing at the mouth slinging verbal abuse at linux-lovers and PC fanatics by now.
      
      I don’t like Apple myself but their tech does as advertised. So if you want to toss twice as much cash on an apple rather than on an equivalent alternative, I simply say “feel free”. The main criteria is this: Do you want to be treated like a complete and utter incompetent by the people selling you your computer or mobile phone? If yes, go with Apple.
- http://openid.aol.com/iphonerulez I. M. Wright
  
  That’s OK with Google, a company well-known for stealing other companies property, so they’d have no problem with helping other people steal. Crooks travel together like kindred spirits.
  - Anonymous Monkey
    
    Amusing, since Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs, said himself that Apple has BLATANTLY stole ideas and designs from other companies….
    - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
      
      Gods, give it a rest. Stop pretending that you ever understood what Jobs meant by the “artists steal” quote.
    - Guest
      
      or that the first foray into building devices was “freaking hardware” that allowed you to steal long distance by emulating sounds of a phone connecting
- http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
  
  Yes. One of the those reasons is freedom to steal is curtailed by Apple playing nice with the content providers that fund creation of the things everybody seems to want, but believes should be free. So flock to your ad driven theft enablers if you must. Keep thinking everything is free. Keep thinking content doesn’t cost money. Keep thinking losing millions on hardware can be made up with selling ads.
- c0nd3mn3d
  
  What, you edited your post and declined the opportunity to delete the extraneous word “why?” Perhaps there are not many reasons people shouldn’t use the word “why,” but having just used a form of the word “reason” is one of them :)
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Why?
cwagner

Apple will remote wipe those apps? I thought they’d stay on the devices they are already on?
- http://wondroushippo.com Carter Dotson
  
  That’s unfounded speculation from the author. There aren’t any instances of apps that Apple accidentally approved like this getting remote wiped. In fact, they should still be available from the user’s Purchased history.
  - cwagner
    
    That’s what I thought, thanks. I thought I’d have heard of any remote wiping happening.
- Anyone
  
  generally Apple removes apps that are not in their app store from iPhones
  
  if you root your device you can avoid that, but the default is that you give Apple full control over what you can and cannot do with your device
  - cwagner
    
    Got any sources? Google says you are lying.
    - Anyone
      
      it seems I was wrong
      they simply have the power to remove it, but do not generally use it
  - anyone
    
    I have a couple of apps that Apple chose to remove from the store. I still have them on my computer and my phone but, I can not go and get it from past purchases. If my phone and my computer lose the app, it is gone.
- http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow
  
  Pretty much. I still have VLC years after Apple had to yank it because of those open source whiners (actually, one whiner). Eventually it will stop working, but Apple never yanked it from those who had downloaded it.
Beond1153

I don’t understand how iPhones work as I have stuck with my Jail Broken BlackBerry for quite some time. Do users control what is on their phone or do these app’s they buy, controlled by the Apple company giving them the right to delete anything from your phone at any time while blocking you from using any unapproved apps?
Ither way… If a person paid for a phone they should have the right to use what ever they want on it at any time. Pushing dev’s to start selling their apps on their own site and linking to it via a legit app posted on the apple store or other methods avoiding Apple in the money exchange.
- Jimbo
  
  Apple seem to have the same attitude as Sony. you dont buy the device, you buy a license that gives you the right to use it but only in the way the manufacturer says. absolutely screwed up system which needs changing drastically!
  - meowmix
    
    one thing about this licencing to use hardware. say you break it, either by accident or deliberately. you have a licence, the fuckers should give you a replacement no questions asked as long as you hand them the brocken item as you have a licence. either that or a refund. is there something wrong with that line of thinking and if so, how is it wrong?
    - Anyone
      
      what’s wrong with that line of thinking is that you don’t get to hand over more cash to Apple, so of course you are not allowed to do that
      
      they make the devices that break easy (glass back), can’t be repaired (no replaceable battery for example) and get obsolete within 6-12 months
      it’s their current business model to trick people into spending money on overpriced hardware (the parts for an iphone are roughly $150 for Apple to buy, to put it into perspective)
    - Guest321
      
      A phone without replaceable battery….simply laughable how they manage to sell this crap to iFags.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    True to an extent. I think that Apple’s problem with having bittorrent apps in their store is that they would be getting lambasted by the MAFIAA on a regular basis if they allowed that.
    
    They don’t want the battle so they just banned them from the store. Is that a dick move? Yeah, but an understandable one until the laws are made much clearer to say that only the PIRATE is responsible for piracy, not applications/stores/sites that can be used for piracy.
    - Guest
      
      Not really as they could just spout that piracy affects them as much as the record labels in terms of piracy,
  - Popehat/FakeElections
    
    I think a lot of companies are starting to do this. Its the same with my laptop.. I had to agree to a Hp disclaimer before i could use it. It made me agree that i wouldn’t use the dvd writer to burn dvd’s with copyrighted material on them. I also had to agree i wouldn’t use the laptop (with its hp logo) in a way that could possibly damage HP’s image.
    I agreed to the conditions because i’m forced to, then it has the cheek of telling me “welcome to you’re new HP laptop”
    
    Then the funniest thing, i have to remove the HP virus that HP install on the laptop. I’m talking about all the worthless applications HP installs on every PC, the computer was running 80 processes when i got it, after uninstalling all the HP BS it goes down to 38 processes and the computer runs like twice as fast…
    - guest01
      
      I will never buy another HP computer again …
      I replaced my CPU myself & it was an upgraded model (as the original chip was obsolete) .. After booting it up ,., Windows stops with a “CODE PURPLE”.
      I looked it up & it is part of a hardware lock that HP installs in addition to the SLIC check & if your hardware is not EXACTLY like it was when you purchased it or if it was changed without using an authorized dealer .. your Windows license becomes void. Since I wasn’t able to use my legitimate Windows code, I wiped my hard drive & installed the pirated Enterprise edition. Not only has it worked perfectly, but there was no HP malware/trialware installed.
- http://openid.aol.com/iphonerulez I. M. Wright
  
  I’m glad you’re not a gun salesman.
  
  “Yes sir, you have the right to use your assault rifle anyway you see fit on whoever you want to because you are the owner.”
  - Noyouarent
    
    I’m glad you aren’t a gun salesman.
    
    “Yes sir, you may buy this gun. No sir you may not buy bullets for it. Not from us, or from anyone else, because you may use them for purposes that we did not intend, so we made our gun only accept these blanks.”
Anonymous

the worst thing about this ban is that the software is perfectly legal. i therefore dont understand why the torrent developers (not necessarily the app developers) dont at least say something to Apple. i can only assume they have the same size balls as Google, ie, pretty miniscule
- http://twitter.com/watice Franky
  
  umm, what exactly would one say? “Hey Apple, I know it’s YOUR app store, and YOUR rules, and I can easily jailbreak and install apps outside of the app store with the click of a button, but I demand you put my app up on your store! It’s legal that’s all I need!”
Pianogamer

I wonder how many years untill phones are free systems, not bound by artificial restrictions by OS makers, phone vendors… too bad no company wants this to happen. Aren’t government supposed to create laws to break these monopolies, not encourage them?
- Popehat/FakeElections
  
  Exactly mate
  We want computers with phones built into them
  Not phones with computers in them.
- Anyone
  
  you can install CyanogenMod on many Android phones
  that is as close as it currently gets to the situation you want
  
  I’m sure there are other Android versions as well, since it is mostly Open Source, but the devices are still locked down too much
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Problem is that many times by using things like CyanogenMod, you leave yourself open to people hacking your phone remotely.
    - MrTissues
      
      You are so wrong, CyanogenMod and pretty much all other ROMs are open source. You can personally go through their code and look for and close potential backdoor bugs. This is more secure than an operating system like iOS where you have Apple coding without you knowing what they are doing. Who’s to know if they have a backdoor in there for themselves? Because you can’t look at the source code you will never really know.
    - CrappleDapple
      
      See, that’s the kind of uneducated dribble that we have to hear from you crapple fanboys in your attempt to defend your feebleminded product purchase. Why just not admit to it: “I have no brain. I like paying for overpriced shiny crap and have my anus raped by a greedy corporation defined by a cancereaten controlfreak.”
      
      There. Hope you feel better, muahahah.
    - Anyone
      
      iOS actually HAS a confirmed backdoor (for Apple, but I’m sure it can be hacked, and it possibly was even given to the FBI)
      
      open source software doesn’t have that problem
      if someone codes a backdoor into it many other programmers will spot it and remove it or at least bring attention to it
      if you are really paranoid you can even check the code yourself
      
      I feel much safer if the code I install is checked by random strangers than by a company with an agenda
    - Guest321
      
      Hello noob, you fail again. Both Android and CyanogenMods are open source platforms and not locked down trash like iOS. Try again.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Cyanogenmod is more likely to be far more secure than any proprietary system. See, in a proprietary system there’s usually a manufacturers override in operation – as in iOS.
      
      Whereas if you want to hack a cyanogenmod phone you need to be more clever than tens of thousands of programmers who’ve already tried to poke holes in it’s security.
      
      Incidentally, this theorem is also why windows orders of magnitude more documented weaknesses than an open-sourced system such as linux or BSD.
djnforce9

Simple solution (and I never thought I’d ever have to use this meme but):
1. Jailbreak device
2. Re-install BitTorrent App
3. ???
4. Profit!

It’s silly that Apple is doing this but I guess it will happen as long as BitTorrent keeps that very negative stigma (from the industry’s perspective) of being directly related to piracy (or being a tool to perform such an action). Not to mention that some of these apps just remotely control a Bittorrent installation somewhere else on a computer and don’t actually download anything onto the device.
- Anyone
  
  Apple basically sells you a broken product, that you have to fix yourself before you can even use it
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    No, they don’t ‘sell you a broken device’. They send you a product that cannot have some things loaded on it in an official manner in order to protect themselves from the MAFIAA doing their usual whinging and whining.
    - Anyone
      
      if I have to “jailbreak” the phone before I can use it the way I want it, they did sell me a broken product
      
      it should be no business of Apple how I use MY iPhone
    - Guest321
      
      Yeah you keep telling yourself that, iFag. There’s a difference between a device not being sold with some controversial apps loaded and quite another thing to force your users to jailbreak to install the apps they desire and use the phone the way they want. Apple basically wants to control how we use our phones.
      
      Android phones are not sold with Bittorrent apps loaded either but there is no jailbreak required to install the things you want. You can load up whatever you want from the get go.
Anders Fogh

Yet another confirmation that I am right in not buying any of these products from fascist Apple. Seems to me that the people who buy them (and do not modify the software a.k.a. jailbreak) are lusers who are afraid to learn anything about real computing and the responsibilities involved. They get simplicity and some degree of “nursing” but give up on their rights to decide and accepts censorship, too sad I think…
notevenslightlybiggoted

Can’t wait for the day people’s love for Apple falls. Their reputation in tatters, and we rise up to demolish any Goliath. Sadly David that wasn’t to be Samsung.

Jail-breaking isn’t the answer. It’s fun… yes. Who in the tech field doesn’t love making hardware do more than it’s intended purpose? Surely however a better situation is for a device to work as intended out of the box, satisfying the needs of all. Idealistic yes. Attainable yes. The largest barrier to this goal with phones is YOU, all of you who buy iPhones from over-priced carriers, drink the cool-aid, accept the staus quo. Neatly presenting me with the next issue.. Status! Those of you who feel inadequate if you don’t have a phone the size of a surfboard that can cook meals for you etc, who don’t realize they’re a huge marketing platform for you to purchase their ‘appsywidgettythings’ while they do have awesome uses as information systems, most people barely scratch the surface, instead buy them because without one they’d feel inadequate amongst their peers. Think about that. Elevating self-righteous Apple to undeserved heights, bolstering their feeling of self-importance and relevance , by voting with your wallets. This mistake perpetuates the cycle of abuse, they become more restrictive, you become more compliant, fewer choices in the market, less innovation, higher costs to you. So speak up, write to Apple, write to your carrier or better yet vote with your wallets get a better phone that suits your needs only, and discuss the philosophy of phone status and Apples undeserved monooly with your peers.
- Anyone
  
  Apple is already on the downwards path, just like they have been in the 90s
  
  they lost Jobs, insist on a closed system, don’t allow other companies to sell their software to get more market share
  all the same mistakes they made in the 90s with the PC, and this time they can’t rehire Jobs to fix it
  - CL
    
    I speak sadly from the sales figures of Apple phones which dominate the smart-phone landscape by far in markets like US and UK. It’s true that some European markets like Germany prefer the galaxy.
    
    To everyone:
    
    This global Tech disaster created a monster out of Apple allowing them to become the worlds largest company [ http://bit.ly/oWZgzQ ]. We’re funding their lawsuits that will seek to inhibit any competitor, whether fair or not. I believe firmly in competition being healthy. As in two green grocers in a village, where prices become about a balance of a quality product at a sustainable price. If once sells too cheaply, they’ll go out of business, conversely if overly expensive, people will buy the others produce. Lawsuits cannot exist here, you can’t copyright a simple real tomato as we didn’t invent them (please no comments about human meddling with genetic mutations and brands). So in a simple world, companies have to fight a civil battle to win, have good items at the right price and both companies can coexist. If one should fall to the evil of too much success and the ability to sue the other under the guise of feeling your tomato is being infringed on, while really just wanting to squash your opponents out of existence – so that you can take all the market for yourself.. this is pure evil, pure hatred and wrong.
    
    A good, established consistently updated and relevant product will sell itself. Will always have a place in the market. Should be flattered by imitators. importantly, if the imitations surpass you, then you’ve been complacent for too long, looking in the mirror at the ‘beautiful’ hair gloating in your own self-indulgent glory, while the turtle wins the race. Who’s fault is that? Not the turtle who admired your beauty and swiftness. Neither should you sue the turtle.
    
    So next time you buy something, think about who you’re giving money to, what kind of corporation they are, how they spend their (your) money, how they will help you in the future, where the product is made, the conditions of the workers, how those sales affect your local economy.
    - Cdberridge
      
      Wow. Just wow. I’ve never seen anybody get the hare (hair) and the tortoise (turtle) story so very very wrong.
    - Anyone
      
      @2679bb7c8d7293f1fb4f3b7a65e71e2b:disqus
      Android currently has a market share of over 50% with phones, and it gets more every day
      Samsung alone outsells Apple 2:1, if you add other Android makers you see how badly Apple is losing this battle and why they are so desperate to sue everyone
      
      with tablets Apple still enjoys a 90% market share, but I’m confident that will change soon as well.
      
      in about 10 year’s time Apple will be back where it belongs, single digits market share
Eddyjj

Why would anyone waste their hard earned cash on a product that you never own enough to be able to do what u want with. Imagine if your Orange phone only allowed u to ring other orange customers, would u be held to ransom, would u fck…..you bought it, do what you want with it or buy another product…..aresholes.!
Alyssa Blindy

Come on. For those who really can’t live without bittorrent on their Idevice and are going to use it for legal purposes, just jailbreak the Iphone. It’s legal and free anyway.
- Anyone
  
  it shouldn’t be required
  Apple should not be in charge what you can and can’t do with a device that you bought (for an inflated price, no less)
- Guest321
  
  Its like paying $60 for a game and then needing a crack from TPB to play it because its infested with DRM. WTF?
Gear Mentation

I have always avoided Apple products for this very sort of reason: they control everything too much. I can’t imagine why someone would buy a lamed product with software specifically designed not to run on a normal computer.
Gear Mentation

However, for all Apple’s many faults, let’s recall that they make their phones secure.
- Rasputin
  
  Secure from what exactly?
  Don’t just flaunt a stupid postulate like that without backing it up with facts.
- guest01
  
  SECURE wtf are you smoking?
  http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/hackers-publish-one-million-and-one-apple-ids-found-on-fbi-computer-1094678
  There were over 19 million Apple iPhone ID’s found on a FBI database.
  
  BitDefender’s “Clueful” app was pulled by Apple (which showed what personal
  data apps were using & sometimes even transmitting without your
  consent).
  
  As far as I am aware, you cannot even install a firewall app
  without jailbreaking your phone.
  
  By pulling the “Clueful” app; Apple made clear that they do not want you to know
  what personal data is being sent (often unencrypted) from what applications over the internet?
  
  It has also been shown they can & will remotely unlock an iPhone & often even without a warrant.
  - guest01
    
    My mistake .. it was only a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices.
    
    Below
    is the “Clueful” link, but to highlight what BitDefender found in it’s
    short lifetime before Apple pulled it from it’s store
    
    During Clueful’s analysis of more than 60,000 popular iOS apps, our team found that:
    
    -        42.5 percent do not encrypt users’personal data, even when sending it over public Wi-Fi
    
    -        41.4 percent can track a user’s location
    
    -        Almost one in five of the apps analyzed can access your entire
    Address Book; some even send your information to the cloud without even
    encrypting it
    
    http://www.bitdefender.com/news/bitdefender-clueful-privacy-app-removed-from-apple-app-store-2526.html
    
    Now someone please explain this great phone security to me & how the FBI could steal 12 million Apple device ID’s (with personal information attached) & Apple NOT be aware of these data leak issues.
meowmix

@anyone i don’t understand why people buy into that bullshit. there is no fucking way i’m buying another playstation, not after the fiasco with the ps3 and all the arsing about jailbreaking it. i sure as fuck wouldn’t pay more than a 30 or 40 quid for a phone, all i need one for is phone calls and the very rare txt. i don’t want to be connected up the kyber pass to the net 24/7/365. i have better things to do than spend countless hours looking at shite for brain dead morons like facebook and all that other social networking bollocks, like read a book, watch a film, play with the nippers or bone the mrs.
Guest

The finder is sad.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

way to go torrent freak. you guys are like the kiss of death for anything cool.
- CL
  
  define cool?
- CL
  
  If you mean that by potentially alerting Apple to programs available in their store that could be against their ‘rules’… which by doing so was ultimately preventing the loss of more hard earned money that people will lose when Apple STEALS the right to use the programs that people paid for. Thus limiting damages… yeah so not cool to help people, and prevent Apple from thieving more than their fair share. Do you think Apple will credit peoples accounts when those Programs are wiped of their iPrunes? Because stealing is cool right?
- Whaaambulance needed, stat!
  
  Translation: “waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, don’t tell me what my crapplesh!tphone can’t do and spoil my illusions of userfriendlyness”
- Anyone
  
  if you have to fear information you are no better than the MAFIAA
  
  blaming torrentfreak for the removal of these apps is misguided, to say the least
Michael Harris

Funny, I have both a remote control app, and the beta of a full blown uTorrent on my Galaxy Nexus… I don’t miss this bullshit from Apple at all.
- Cdberridge
  
  uTorrent beta? Ttorrent all the way :-)
Firefucks

Well I’m getting a Mozilla phone next year…
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tremor

iDIOTS, all of the Apple Sheep
- Mindless Sheep
  
  But… I love my Ba-a-a-a-aahple
  Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go pull my wool back over my own eyes and have pretendsex with job’s poltergeist
Halfheat

part of me saw this coming a mile away, its kinda funny and sad at the same time that apple got all the apple Iphone fags so worked up and just when they though life was good pulled the rug out from under them
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Hey, ALL App Stores can make mistakes like this, giving an app clearance when it is actually against the rules.
  - Anyone
    
    there shouldn’t be a need for clearance in the first place
    - http://twitter.com/watice Franky
      
      everyone should just be allowed to upload whatever they want? Yeah that’s what we need. Screw an app store, I want a Google Spam Store!
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Walternate

Here’s what’s happening in a parallel universe right now. Don’t you wish you were there?

- Due to solar flares and inexplicable planetary alignments, average Apple users gain +10 experience and +1 intelligence points.

- Loosing their customer base, Apple files chapter 11, Samsung picks up the pieces, producing new opensource superphones, TV’s and whatnot.

- Larry and Serge caught high on coke, pissing on Steve Job’s grave.

- Google grows a pair and tells MAFFIA to F?ck Off, removes all search cencorship.

- Steve Jobs gravesite accidentally marked as landfill. Skeleton becomes part of foundation of new Microsoft annex.

- Julian Assange escapes to Equador and makes youtube video, giving 10 Downing St. the finger.

- Joe Biden kicked out of the White House on ass and elbows for racketeering and nepotism.

- Chris Dodd arrested for conspiracy and sent to Gitmo for cold coffee enemas the rest of his life.

- MPAA and RIAA broken up by the goverment. Former office buildings demolished and turned into parkinglots.

- US receives public arsekicking for their blunder in New Zealand. Dotcom cleared of all charges, US Gov forced to offer humiliating apology, return all assets and pay for all damages. All responsible civil servants involved are fired.

- Mega 2.0 becomes a hit with consumers and artists as well. Artists actually start making real money.

- Major record company executives seen leaping off buildings as their business models crumble and their stock portofolio crashes harder than their own corpulent bodies on the sidewalk.

- Sweden’s US bootlicking goverment is overthrown and the Swedish pirate party takes the lead.

- Prime Minister Falkvinge decrees all TPB founders to be exonorated as torrenting for personal non-commercial usage is made legal.

- Peter Sunde gets his own TV show: Latenight Pirate

- In a fit of sulking anger and hate, Monique Walsted throws herself into the ballpit at an Ikea store. Unfortunately nobody told her about the tigershark.

- BREIN’s Tim Kuik is accidentally mowed down by a radioactive Dutch garbage truck. Besides a few weeping former pr0n producers, nobody shows up at the funeral.
Andrew Lee

Heh another fuck up by crApple…. Go figure :o
Tcwood12

Just what we need. Torrent programs on a mobile device most likely using mobile internet. That’s just brilliant for the already shitty networks in the US, and overpriced ones at that that hardly can be called unlimited.
- http://twitter.com/krozareq krozareq
  
  Never used Wifi?
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Guest

Dear Apple,

Please get on your knees and suck my big dick.

Regards,
Someone Who Hates Your Shit Products
- Whatthefuck
  
  Are you fed up with your ugly mothers lips?
  
  Regard,
  Someone Who Hates really dumb dickheads
  - joexxx
    
    No, he is fed up with your mother’s lips.
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ScrewEwe2

I’ve never owned an Apple product and have a few questions for an Apple store Genius. Are the customers of Apple only allowed to install Apps which come from an Apple store, for use on their products, like the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac computers, or may they install Apps from outside the Apple stores? Does Apple have the right to monitor their customers products and force the user’s to uninstall non Apple approved Apps like µTorrent, or can Apple remotely remove Apps and programs without prior notice except for a EULA they agreed to when they bought and started the product up for first use? I’m picturing Kyle on South Park forced to become part of a HumancentiPad and the Japanese dude saying “So sori Kairu. but I am starving! Which would you rather I eat? Should I eat-uh
cuttlefish and asparagus, or the vanilla paste-o”?

Thank you in advance if you can enlighten me.
- http://twitter.com/watice Franky
  
  don’t need to be a genius to answer your questions-
  You can install apps from any developer, from the app store, or directly from the developer themselves. There is no requirement you use the app store.
  Apple can remove apps from your system remotely if such option is enabled on your device. I personally keep this enabled in case any kind of ios malware spreads faster than it’s patched. It has never been used to remove any 3rd party apps including pirated cydia apps. Here is the current killswitch URL, which is currently showing zero banned apps:
  
  https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Thanks.
Lol

Lol I see this coming. Congrat what a good show from you Apple worm and I enjoy it while it lasted.
ScrewEwe2

After reading all the comments, the only Apple products I plan on buying in the near future are Carmeled Apples.
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Guest

I’ve never bought anything made by Apple and I’m proud of it.
Josh

Go buy a Galaxy S3 and throw your glorified DRM’d iPods in the garbage…
James

haha I love the ending: ”
And according to Apple some Android phones areindistinguishable from the iPhone, so…”
Whatever

And Rob8urcakes was so happy about apple.

The ” so it seems” was the most important part of the previous article.
Dr Kelly, Corpse Of

Shame we can’t separate the product from the service.
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Kevin Theo

The world without unreasonable fanboys, religious people, Yankees, fascism and money would be better. They all are fascist, censure, enforce the stupid laws, rebuke, oppress, they are corrupt, false moralists, hypocrite.

I’m anti-Apple, I’m anti-Google, I’m anti-Facebook, I’m anti-American, I’m anti-Christian, I’m anti-Islam, I’m anti-capitalist, I’m anti-Communist. I boycott the Americans and the USA.

I prefer to be free. I prefer the freedom. I prefer the open source something. I prefer the anarchism and the revolution.
nostrafarious

I’ve always said fuck that sociopathic punk-ass company and it’s proprietary mickey mouse crap they sell. And may Steve Jobs rot in hell with his 6 billion dollars, none of which could save his ugly ass from CANCER. What asshole scumbag worth 6 Billion brags about never giving a nickle to a charity? Says a lot doesn’t it?
- meowmix
  
  macmillan are laughing at him now.
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Gg

cunts! I’m still waiting for those assholes to go bankrupt …if drooling idiots would stop buying their glossy products
Robaldz

puah, applefag
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Guest

apple sucks sometimes
Abc

Imagine this iphone5 with android built in : )
Xanderr

Fuck you apple

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