AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has begun removing “Wi-Fi Scanner” (help you find Wi-Fi access) applications from the App Store. Apple claims they are removing these apps due to “minimum user fuctionality. ” AppleInsider quotes Three Jacks Software, the publisher of “Wi-Fi Where” as saying the following about their app’s removal from the store: “I […]
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Apple Removing 'Wi-Fi Scanner' Apps from App Store

Mar 5th 2010 by

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has begun removing “Wi-Fi Scanner” (help you find Wi-Fi access) applications from the App Store. Apple claims they are removing these apps due to “minimum user fuctionality. ”

AppleInsider quotes Three Jacks Software, the publisher of “Wi-Fi Where” as saying the following about their app’s removal from the store:

“I find it quite ironic that Apple removes these very handy, very useful apps from the app store when there are so many useless gimick apps that just pollute the App Store pages,” the developer wrote. “I’m not going to list any names, but its not hard to see that this trend.”

The way I see this, is that Apple is just now coming to terms with the fact that most of the apps in the App Store are in fact, tacky, tasteless junk apps. Apple is in a curious situations. Leave all of the junk apps in (that they should have never admitted in the first place) and choke out all the outstanding apps that are made, or remove all of the junk apps from the store and look like control freaks. Either way looks like a misstep for Apple.

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