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Apple Plays Dictator Again: Squashing Previously Approved App

May 17, 2016

If you are going to have a walled garden, you get to play king 100% of the time. Spoftpedia reports that an app called System and Security Info was pulled from the AppStore. Stefan Esser, the app developer, claims Apple jettisoned the app because of an update. Apparently, the app successfully passed through three reviews by Apple prior to being pulled. The app became very popular since it exposed running processes in iOS 9 and could expose an unknown jailbreak. Apple engineers justified that act stating that the app presented misleading and inaccurate information.

"We noticed that your app provides potentially inaccurate and misleading diagnostic functionality for iOS devices to the user. Currently, there is no publicly available infrastructure to support iOS diagnostic analysis. Therefore your app may report inaccurate information which could mislead or confuse your users. We encourage you to review your app concept and incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines."

I read this as saying Apple doesn't want you to know what's going on under the covers. I guess when you're the king you can change the rules at any time and bust out the guillotine.

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