Is this evidence of Apple’s controversial Killswitch in action?
Please note this now appears to be a bug which is being fixed.
A recent app that I, like many others, bought on the AppStore with real money appears to have suddenly stopped working. A simple application called Night Stand, which is now copied by other app developers in true AppStore style, designed to simply display the time and alarm while dimming the screen. Not exactly a controversial app to say the least and has been available for some time! Now it seems that you can load the app but it simply won’t run.
This app has also been tested on a colleagues phone with the same results. This is not as a result of any updates as it was seen to work recently and, stranger still, the app has been pulled from the AppStore itself. As of this moment I have not yet been able to find any reason for it’s disappearance, but am more concerned about the fact that any app can seemingly be pulled from your device without warning or reason.
I paid good money for that app, all be it 59 pence but it is mine, or is it?
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
taken from: http://www.apptism.com/apps/night-stand
“NOTE: There is currently a bug in the Night Stand that is crashing the application for our UK customers. The bug is already resolved and a new update should be available in the AppStore, depending on the Apple approval time.”
it’s still available in the american appstore.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Ha, that would mirror the response I got from Spoon Juice, an moment ago, although I do find it interesting that this so called bug has manifest in so many devices at the same time. I’m not paranoid, but I trust no one!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
There is a bug in the software, we already have fixed that. Along with some new functionality and themes we are uploading a new build on this Friday. Following Apple approval it will become available in the AppStore. Apologies from SpoonJuice for this bug.
Paranoia rules here! At least revise the headline to reflect that it’s a post in error!