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It directly violates Verizon's terms of services too.

We could (unproductively) relitigate whether Apple should police submissions to the app store at all, but as long as they do, they're obviously going to reject applications that violate the terms of the vast overwhelming majority of their US users carrier contracts.

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>We could (unproductively) relitigate whether Apple should police submissions to the app store at all

Transparent false dichotomy. This has nothing to do with curating versus anarchy. It is the standard of a subset of carriers in one country dictating policy for all Apple devices worldwide. Wasn't Apple the one who saved people from carrier influence and control?

No matter how outraged anyone pretends to be about this incident, not a single person on this thread would have bet $50 at any odds on Apple not pulling this app out of the store. That's all I'm trying to say.

If they're set on policing, why not filter available apps by the capabilities you have? Going to the lowest common denominator seems like a bad compromise. They already filter by country and know who your carrier is, the parts are there.

iOS has built-in tethering support for carriers that are OK with it.

They are set on policing, so let's not pretend there's a debate to have where there clearly isn't one.

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