Apple pulls all Wifi scanning apps from App Store

[bobzilla]

Apple has pulled all Wifi scanning apps from their App Store, noted in a Wifi-Where forum post. Also gone are WiFoFoFum and yFy. Apple's schizophrenia is getting old.

Last edited by bobzilla on Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Legodude]

Wow, good thing I just bought Wifi-Where a few days ago. I also have WiFiFoFum.

[bobzilla]

Yeah, it now feels like I'm hiding contraband censored books from the Thought Police.

[bobzilla]

cultofmac.com blog post about this. Comments mention that WifiTraq, Wifi Get, Wifi Analyzer and eWifi have also been removed.
Report from The Register on this. Another note from 3jacks. Someone on apple forum wondering where yFy went.

Update: More sites/blogs covering:
theregister.co.uk
cultofmac.com
iphonefreak.com
fonehack.wordpress.com
gadgetsteria.com
news.softpedia.com
appadvice.com
theprez98.blogspot.com
digi.no
habrahabr.ru
tecnoblog.net
pocket-lint.com
fiercemobilecontent.com
franklyonline.se
news.softpedia.com
geeky-gadgeets.com
mobile.broadbandgenie.co.uk
iphoneitalia.com
bitaminados.com
gigaom.com
techcrunch.com
dailywireless.org
erictric.com
blogiphone.fr
web-ephemere.fr
yahoo.com (pcworld)
pcworld.com
networkworld.com
ubergizmo.com
tech.blorge.com
digitaltrends.com
ipodnn.com
webhostdir.com
ardenal.info
geek.com
intomobile.com
smallfish-bigpond.com
apple-blog.it
cnet.com
appleinsider.com
tech.icrontic.com
itsalltech.com
actualidadiphone.com
tengounmac.com
crn.com
iphone.tmcnet.com
nexus404.com
planetared.com
techdirt.com
mashable.com
slashdot.org
tgdaily.com
diarioti.com
macworld.idg.se
wirelesslanprofessionals.com
industry.bnet.com
justanotheriphoneblog.com
devicescape.com
geeksugar.com
nickles.de
buymeaniphone.com
iphonehelp.in
eweek.com
eweekeurope.co.uk
webwereld.nl
ifones.com
iphonecruncher.com
theregister.co.uk new article regarding Cydia
favsky.com
betanews.com
diginu.nl

gizmodo.com "It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship"
boingboing.net "Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)"

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[k6lcs]

I have a couple of these applications. They seem to better find WiFi access - even my own home system - than the built-in app under Settings on my 3G 32GB touch. Will a sync in iTunes "erase" these purchased, "non-approved" apps? Or am I too paranoid?

[Legodude]

I have a couple of these applications. They seem to better find WiFi access - even my own home system - than the built-in app under Settings on my 3G 32GB touch. Will a sync in iTunes "erase" these purchased, "non-approved" apps? Or am I too paranoid?

AFAIK, no they won't get erased.

[pejacoby]

I don't believe there has been an incidence of Apple pulling the 'kill switch' to auto-delete an app from your phone. After the much publicized bruhaha a year ago, I can't imagine they'd ever use it.

It looks like yFy will be coming to Cydia soon - http://www.infomind.com/iphone/yfy.html.

Time to revert back to 3.1.2 and jailbreak this iPod Touch...heck, then I could add a real GPS too!