The list of banned iPhone apps include popular applications such as WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum and yFy Network Finder. In their message to the iPhone app developers, the iPhone app review staff have noted that the ban on iPhone apps is due to their use of private APIs to access wireless information. While Apple has not explicitly spelt out the private API in question, it is being speculated to be iPhone ‘s built-in 802.11 radio.
Noting the ban on several (more…)

That could change now. Folks at Gizmodo are reporting that the
process has now got an additional layer of approval that is automated. This software, called the
for use of API calls other than what is available for public use and flags those apps that make use of these private APIs.
for slackening of the app approval process, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Private APIs have been used in the past to
by scammy applications. Also, Apple (more…)