Apple zaps cunning Droid app for the iPhone

by Paul Nesbitt

Apple acted to foil a daring attempt to get an iPhone App promoting the Motorola Droid available on the App Store.

Apple has been rightly panned for the Byzantine approval process developers have to go through to get their iPhone apps available on the AppStore. But Apple's decision to block iDroid from the AppStore is the least contentious decision it's made in some time.

Or is it? It's true that all iDroid did was to display the macho, glowing red Droid logo, and posted some blurbs about how the Motorola Droid handset is better than the iPhone. On the other hand Apple regularly approves iPhone apps that are little more than tacky commercials for pop artists and products and services that don't compete with the iPhone or Apple.

So farewell then, iDroid, you didn't make it past the AppStore approval process, unlike some of iDroid developer, Swavv Applications' other triumph's such as Beer Pong Pro ("the college experience, on your iPhone and iPod touch") and Spin The Bottle Pro ("Boy, is your night about to get better").