Apple rejected an iPhone app that remotely controls Transmission.
Turns out it’s not even because it requires a companion desktop app, which was previously used as grounds for rejection (despite the existence of Apple’s own “Remote”), but because “this category of applications” is frequently used for infringing copyright.
Even if you couldn’t say the same of, oh, let’s say email or Safari, the app doesn’t even, as far as I can tell, contain any of its own BitTorrent code. It’s just a remote control.
Of course, it’s not all bad. As everyone knows, the iPhone app submission process works like this:
- Develop app
- Submit app
- App rejected
- Blogs raise a stink
- App approved
So, these guys are merely mired in step 4 and we can look forward to their app being approved within a week or two.
