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No tabbed browsing in Safari. I'm guessing dozens of tabbed browsers will pop up in the App store almost immediately. Unless Apple rejects them of course.

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Last I checked, Apple rejects anything that duplicates the core functions included on the device. Those include web browsing, media playing and email.

There are many web browsers and email clients available in the app store today, so I'm not sure where you got the idea that Apple blocks them. This doesn't solve the background apps problem, but there are also many apps that play media.

http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409

Apple doesn't have a problem with third-party web browsers as long as they use the WebKit engine. Otherwise, the app would be implementing its own language interpreter and therefore be against the developer agreement.

wait did i hear you right -- apple prohibits interpreters?? that would be truly sad. i was thinking of making a graphical programming language for kids.

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