An app allowing users to locate their lost AirPod wireless earbuds has been removed from Apple's app store without explanation:
Mobile app developer studio Deucks Pty released the app, called "Finder for Airpods," last week. The app used the iPhone to track the Bluetooth wireless signal emitted by the two AirPod units to help locate the lost piece, displaying a line showing whether the user was getting closer or farther away based on signal strength. Excitement about Apple's new wireless earphones has almost been matched by anxiety about how easy it could be to lose one of the two unconnected mini speakers. So there was an initial burst of enthusiasm about the new app, which quickly garnered a rating of four and a half stars.
But on Monday, the app had vanished from the Apple App Store—and developer Raajit Sharm at Deucks Pty says it's not coming back. "Apple determined the 'concept' of people finding their AirPods with the app was deemed 'not appropriate for the App Store,'" Sharm wrote in an email to Fortune. "The app will not return back."
A new pair of AirPods costs $159 and a single replacement costs just $69.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 10 2017, @05:09PM
I don't think Apple and their ilk are "against humanity": They need a certain number of customers to be alive in order to give them hundreds of dollars for overpriced garbage.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.