The iPhone In Brief: Apple Bans 900 Apps; Flaws Fixed; Netflix Streaming And More
Everyone is up in arms about Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) voting the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Voice app off its iPhone island, but does anyone care that about 900 useless apps have been yanked by one developer?
MobileCrunch reports that one of the App Store’s most prolific developers, Khalid Shaikh, founder of Perfect Acumen, has been banned. The apps are mostly considered useless, and have titles such as “US Army News” and “Skin Care Updates.” To add injury to insult, they cost $5. Shaikh’s racket came to an abrupt end after Apple revoked his iPhone Developer Program License Agreement after many complaints about copyright infringement. Will anyone be up in arms about this one? Probably not. Although we can understand why Apple has waited so long to yank them. Without Shaikh, they have fallen by nearly 1,000 apps to around 64,000.
In other news:
—After security experts discovered that SMS messages could result in iPhones being hijacked, Apple readies a patch that could be ready by Saturday. [BBC]
—Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is prepping a streaming video service for the iPhone. That is, if it’s allowed by Apple, which already provides access to TV shows. [MultichannelNews via TechCrunch]
—The Pizza Hut app has been downloaded 100,000 times in two weeks. No word on how many pizzas have been ordered. [iPhone app]
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