http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/ Engadget Comments for Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
i'm sure my friends with iphones wouldn't care WHAT an MMS app looked like!

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Never mind, Apple will realize about this in a few days and will remove it after that. Just like they f*cked with NetShare...]]>Nov 22nd 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Score one for Windows Mobile. No one tells me what to put on my own phone.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Aw god, I gotta stop responding to imaginary internet people while drunk.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
ok, what about the thousands of quality aps out there, that I willfully and happily install?
Like smms, for my HTC Mogul that did not have picture mail out of the box. A nice developer made a very functional MMS program, that I am sure Sprint would not have approved of, but guess what... it didn't matter.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
In addition, it stops obnoxious people like you from buying an iPhone, therefore saving us all immeasurable amounts of time trying to help you learn how to set up your email and sync your contacts (it's the big 'Sync' button that works the magic for future reference).

So why don't you just go ahead and score two for the iPhone: No trojan apps + none of you guys clogging up the iPhone support forums. On second though, why don't you just shove it up you @$$?]]>Nov 22nd 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
You crazy ass fanboy, you!

Stop bringing in your amateur mobile OS to fight with the big boys, WinMo will destroy it in usability and something called freedom, which my ipod touch only gives me when i dont use itunes and jailbreak it and still doesnt hold a candle to my touch pro.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
This isn't a limit of IMAP, it's probably on your sever end.

But if you REALLY want your WindowsMobile mail app to do everything, point it at an Exchange Server. You can sign up for one online for like $5/mo if your company doesn't use one. That'll sync contacts, calendar, tasks, and email all at the same time. You'll wonder how you lived without it.]]>Nov 23rd 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
The only possible explanation is the approval board is a room full of monkeys approving apps at random.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
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We do whatever the hell we want, and you love it.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
(looks around)

Oh, wait. No. No, I don't.
Boo, Apple.

Is it okay to just sit on the fence? Every Apple topic on this site is just filled with perverse hatred.

It's kinda weird to feel anger welling up inside of you because someone you don't know dislikes something you do. What strikes me even stranger though, is when people have perfectly decent reasons for their conclusion, but you can still detect a sense of superiority or prejudice in how they speak.
Just bad vibes, man.

Not just you, almost everyone.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
I just wanted to reassure you that my comment was not aimed at either of the previous posters that I replied to. I actually found the quip amusing.

Just getting tangenty, I suppose.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/So....Steve Jobs is a dictator?]]>Nov 22nd 2008 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
No restrictions... uhh

Right :)

Mike
]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Apple really need to sort out their policy. It's bad for developers, who spend their time developing an application that gets rejected, and it's bad for consumers, who get caught up in the confusion.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
All in all, I'd say that developing for Apple beats developing for WinMo or Linux in most areas, and is disappointing in only one. The process of of accepting apps into the store. Which is what everyone here is focusing on. Why could that be...?]]>Nov 22nd 2008 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
You'd expect the SDK to be free (besides, people would just jailbreak it if it wasn't). Also, it's not a one-off $99 fee; it's also 30% of the sale price. Also, I think people focus on the rejection issue because (a) it's very important and (b) the rules are poorly defined and not applied consistently.

Apple do a lot of great stuff. I really admire some of the things they come out with. This issue, however, has been poorly dealt with and requires clarification. I know customers are already demanding it.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
That's the beauty of WinMo. You can develop almost anything you want, with less hassles. I'm careful enough to determine if an application is safe or not, and I don't need a company to baby me through it. Also, a lot of things rejected on the Apps Store aren't dangerous. Do you really think Flash is going to kill you? I'll make the call myself. If you like being controlled, go with Apple's iPhone.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Ever seen an iPhone commercial? That's advertising, and most of the new ones show multiple apps being used on the phone. As for flash- Apple is in talks to integrate a mobile version into Safari; it can't be implemented as an ordinary app for maximum performance.

WinMo is a shoddy OS that is nearly impossible to use and whose default browser crashes more often than I run into you Windows fanboys. Like you. Yeah. You. You suck. Shut it, freak.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Raheeeeally? The Android dev kit is also free and super easy since it's a plugin for eclipse(which can be used in Windows, Mac or Linux by the way) and hosts all apps for a lifetime price of $25 on the android marketplace so.... ya I'd say that's a better deal. Oh, and if you don't want to pay the $25? You can just host the app yourself on another website and people with the G1 can still download it. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Wow. That's the longest continual bash of a certain product that I have seen in a long time. Not only did you manage to hurt the reputation of a product, but the person you replied to will probably die lonely and never love again, living with the knowledge that he was called a "freak."

NOT.
YOU.
ASSHOLE.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
I doubt it.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Anyway... Steve Job start to look a bit like gollum no? just put a turtle neck to gollum... see!?!]]>Nov 22nd 2008 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/
Oh and please allow OPERA to be in the AppStore! I'll pay 20$ for it if I have to just do it please.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/I used to have Opera on my Nokia, and whereas the default browser used to crash (or not load pictures due to the lack of RAM), Opera worked liked a monster. No crashes what so ever and loaded everything (including pictures) quicker than the default browser. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/apple-approves-third-party-email-client-for-the-app-store-viola/Nov 22nd 2008 2:37AM