Amazon also forces apps off the iPhone app store

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Glenn S. Tenney" <tenney () think org>
> Date: August 11, 2009 9:27:36 PDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Amazon also forces apps off the iPhone app store

> ( resending since it seems that it might of interest for IP )
>
> I use a product on my Mac called Delicious Library
> http://www.delicious-monster.com/ that lets you scan in UPC codes of
> books, DVDs, CDs, etc. to build up a database of what you have in your
> library / collections.  The current version noted that there was an
> iPhone app to be able to view your library database interactively on
> your iPhone.
>
> I went to download that app only to find out that it had been pulled
> from the iPhone App store... not by Apple, but by a demand from
> Amazon.
>
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/168019/delicious_library_iphone_app_yanked_from_app_store.html
>
> Delicious Library iPhone App Yanked From App Store
> Dan Moren, Macworld.com
> Jul 7, 2009 3:40 pm
>
> Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the App
> Store. Delicious Monster's iPhone companion app for its popular
> Delicious Library 2 media-cataloging application was removed from the
> App Store on Tuesday, though not, as it turns out, at the behest of
> the usual culprit, Apple. Rather, this time the objection came from
> online retail supergiant Amazon.
>
> The news came from Delicious Monster CEO Wil Shipley, who said on
> Twitter that he was forced to remove the application due to Amazon's
> contract governing the use of its application programming interfaces
> (APIs), the software that allows developers to access information from
> Amazon's database.
>
> The relevant portion of the contract, section 4e, states:
>
> You will not, without our express prior written approval requested via
> this link, use any Product Advertising Content on or in connection
> with any site or application designed or intended for use with a
> mobile phone or other handheld device.
>
> However, according to Shipley's Twitter posts, Amazon is not granting
> approval for anybody at the time being.
>
> This isn't the first time an iPhone developer has run afoul of the
> retail site. In November 2008, Mazo, an Amazon shopping client for the
> iPhone, was removed from the App Store under similar
> circumstances. Roughly a week later, Amazon released its own iPhone
> app with similar features.
>
> ...
>
> And a Youtube showing how that iPhone app worked
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVkCauv0IGU
>
>
> --
> Glenn Tenney CISSP CISM



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