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Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies
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www.engadget.com — Recently we were sent a PR email about an iPhone app called BdEmailer. No big deal, press releases about new iPhone applications show up in our box in large bundles every day -- but this one was different. According to the release, the program is the "the first wide email iPhone app that ...

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Apple's Approval of BdEmailer Proves App Approval Process is a Crapshoot [IPhone]
Gizmodo — ... landscape keyboard, for god's sake. But at this point, it's completely unclear as to what keeps an app out of the store. Was this a deliberate move, or will it get yanked from the store in a matter of hours, the result of a sleepy gatekeeper letting it through accidentally? We're hoping this is not an accident but a sign of more leniency from Apple in terms of what they'll allow in the App Store. But I doubt it. Get this one now while you still can, folks. [BdEmailer via Engadget] ...

Apple Moves Goalposts, Approves E-Mail App
Touch Podium — ... to see BdEmail yanked from the App Store any day now, so those of you who want it had better get out $1 and grab it [iTunes Link] before it disappears entirely. If by some miracle they’ve relaxed their restrictions on such matters, then perhaps they’d be kind enough to provide us with a map that more accurately nails down what’s allowed and what’s still forbidden that lies beyond the SDK rules we already know about. (via Engadget) Related Stories: September 21, 2008 -- Another App ...

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BDEmailer: This App Doesn’t Do What You Think it Does
TheAppleBlog — ... Engadget says Apple “violates its own policies” because the app’s SMTP feature “duplicates an exact function of Apple’s Mail application on the iPhone and touch.” I disagree. The product’s own  ...

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www.engadget.com 1/14/2009 — Okay, so maybe a new browser isn't the first thing we'd like to see replaced with some fresh thinking out of the App Store -- that honor probably goes to the email client , preferably with something that could rival the G1's capabilities -- but ...
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