Existing users, 
Another useful tool banned from the iPhone App Store
Posted 21 September 2008 @ 2pm in News
Apple is doing a good job at driving developers to circumvent the official App Store sales mechanism and motivating users to jailbreak their iPhones. The company has rejected another useful application, Angelo DiNardi’s MailWrangler, because it “duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail.”
In a post to his blog, DiNardi says his application, which allows users to add and access multiple Gmail accounts “simply directly loading and showing Gmail inside of an application,” adding “How you can confuse Gmail with Mail.app I’m not sure.”
MailWrangler also lets users see threaded views and google contacts, archive (quickly), star messages and more–functionality missing from Apple’s Mail.app.
Apple previously rejected Podcaster-–an iPhone application that lets people download podcasts directly to their devices without going through iTunes-–from the App Store. It also removed NetShare, an application that allows the iPhone to be tethered (used as a wireless modem), encouraging some users to jailbreak (enable unofficial application installation) their phones and install the easy-to-use iPhoneModem tethering tool.
DiNardi quips “I guess I should just write another flashlight or glowstick application to actually get published. That’s the only apps Apple seems to want in the store.”
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Posted by daniel4510_dotmac
21 September 2008 @ 11pm
That’s a pity. I would have snatched that one up without hesitation for my Touch, as I have a number of Gmail accounts. I’d love to know who makes such decisions.
Posted by epgomez
24 September 2008 @ 3pm
So far there is no app that is worth buying in the apple app store. why did they approve apps that tells you what speed your car is when you already have a speedometer in the car! this can be a useful app if it warns me of overspeeding by knowing which road i’m in if it’s 60km or a 50km. Another example is airsharing. Yes it’s useful enough but I must have the iphone with me while sitting in front of my pc to transfer the file. It should have been like I’m in front of my pc I move the files to a web folder without the iphone then by the time I’m out on the road with my iphone the file is already there. There’s another one that shows a webcam picture of the traffic and it’s for $10. This service is already free by just going to the web. Apple should do more research before approving apps. Right now majority are just craps. And another thing put flash player on the iphone. If they will still ignore flash I think iphone will be overtaken by the other players in the market. check out HTC touch hd, nokia phones displays flash.