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What are the Rarest Apps?

braddick

braddick

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Other than, "I Am Rich" what apps were pretty much pulled shortly after being released, thus making them rare?

And, do you own any of them? Although, obviously updates are not provided for apps that are quickly killed, does Apple simply take the app away upon a sync if the app is no longer available?
For example, if someone downloaded Shaken Baby (I think that is what it was called) and it is quickly banned for being offensive, does Apple take the app back upon the next sync to iTunes?
 
The tethering app, name escapes me right this second.

And no, if you buy/download an app that is later removed, it is never removed from your device. (Unless the app is dangerous and the kill switch is pulled.)
 
NetShare (I think that's what it was called).

Slipped past Apple and made it into the App Store, before being pulled at the request of AT&T. Basically, it allowed people to tether.

EDIT: The same app that Jeremy referred to.
 
Jeremy1026 said:
The tethering app, name escapes me right this second.
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I remember that one. It was $9.95 and I hesitated to download it. When I decided to later in the afternoon it had already been pulled.

I take it, those who did see the vision and purchased it are able to still use it today?
 
braddick said:
I take it, those who did see the vision and purchased it are able to still use it today?
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I believe so, it would've been a time where Apple using their 'kill switch' would make sense, but apparently people that have the app are still able to use it. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere there's people here at MR that have the app.
 
Chipotle ordering app. I snagged it as I was home sick from work that day. Now when you try to order it just says "Cannot communicate with Chipotle supercomputer."
 
thirdeyeopen666 said:
Chipotle ordering app. I snagged it as I was home sick from work that day. Now when you try to order it just says "Cannot communicate with Chipotle supercomputer."
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Yes! I remember that. They promised to revamp their ordering system and to re-release it. It's been 6 months and not a peep.
 
Delicious Library wasn't up for long. It's a searchable (not editable) copy of your delicious library catalogue (your books/cd's/dvd's) on your phone,

amazon asked for it to be pulled, as the desktop app pulls it's data from amazon, and then puts it on the iphone. Amazon clearly misread their own API terms of service as it says a mobile device is not allowed to do this, but the desktop is, which is what library was doing.
 
braddick said:
I remember that one. It was $9.95 and I hesitated to download it. When I decided to later in the afternoon it had already been pulled.

I take it, those who did see the vision and purchased it are able to still use it today?
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Yep, works just fine. I snagged it the moment I heard about it and it was gone a couple of hours later.

LinMac said:
GV Mobile
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Not exactly rare. It was up for a few months and purchased by a lot of people. Many of us were waiting for it to show up in the store after it was announced by the developer.
 
Aquatica.

The game was up shortly them removed because copyright issues. I believe.
It copied the game fl0w on the ps3 or something. Correct me if I'm wrong. But the game is preety nice. Kind of like Spore.
 
x hArRiSoN413 said:
Aquatica.

The game was up shortly them removed because copyright issues. I believe.
It copied the game fl0w on the ps3 or something. Correct me if I'm wrong. But the game is preety nice. Kind of like Spore.
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I also downloaded that game. I remember it either being free or close to it and because it did 'feel' like Spore, got it.

I did delete it soon afterward though and, of course, once that is done it can't be retrieved.

Pools of Blood was a game I thought was going to be scarce as the regular version, the one I downloaded when it first was released, soon afterward couldn't be located in the store but rather a lite version was offered in its place.
iTunes kept wanting me to download and update but there wasn't one for the game. I was afraid at the time if I did respond to iTunes the game would be lost forever.
Well, fast forward a week afterward and sure enough, the regular version shows up again in the store with mild changes so turned out not be rare afterall.
 
I got Delicious Library before Apple pulled it and so far it hasn't been auto-deleted which I had suspected may have happened. It even made the transition from my 3G to my 3GS.

It's one of my favourite apps.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A400 Safari/528.16)

I have Tris and NetShare.
 
Jeremy1026 said:
The tethering app, name escapes me right this second.

And no, if you buy/download an app that is later removed, it is never removed from your device. (Unless the app is dangerous and the kill switch is pulled.)
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really? I had a tetris style app that just disappeared one day after syncing...:confused:
 
sladey said:
I got Delicious Library before Apple pulled it and so far it hasn't been auto-deleted which I had suspected may have happened. It even made the transition from my 3G to my 3GS.

It's one of my favourite apps.
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do you still have the app?

could you post the .ipa if you do? ive been looking for it for months..

PLEASSEEEE? :p
 
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