Apple iPhone users are probably accustomed to not being allowed to have fun things by now, as the company kills yet another app. This time around, Apple has brought the hammer down on Rewound, an app that allowed users to customize their iPhones to look like an iPod Classic.
Developer Louis Anslow is the creator of Rewound, a customizable music player that more or less turns the iPhone’s touchscreen into an iPod Classic. Anslow isn’t the first developer to try to feast on the general public’s want for iPod nostalgia, but Anslow managed to get Rewound into the app store with a workaround that may or may not run afoul of Apple’s intellectual property rules.
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The apps was designed from the ground up to use skins that allowed users to customize the look of their app. According to the devs, “Rewound was specifically designed not to infringe on Apple’s trademarks and we didn’t. Rewound could look many ways. Not until users started sharing/using Clickwheel skins did they ban the app.”
According to Rewound, another reason why Apple removed it is because the app charged for Apple Music features. “This is less unreasonable BUT they already approved the in-app purchase before Clickwheel skins started proliferating… then they decided it was not ok. Double standard?” said Rewound.
Rewound said it can’t update the app to get it re-approved without breaking the app for more than 170,000 users. “So we’re going to have to upload a separate version. They’re just going to keep saying no until users can’t possible make it like their favourite music player,” said the app developer.
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