iNewz Applications Withdrawn

Sadly, we have to announce that Apple has requested that we withdraw the iNewz application from sale. The reason for this is that it seems some news organizations feel that any application that embeds their RSS feed URL(s) violates their copyright. Apple has been asked by several of these news organizations to watch for violations of this interpretation of their copyright, and reject any apps that include their feeds.

After some discussion with Apple about this logic, we have concluded that this affects all feeds, not just those of the organizations that have already complained to Apple, and by extension, all of the iNewz applications (iNewz, iNewz for iPad, iNewz Tech and iNewz Green) that are currently on sale.

We are looking into our options for bringing a more general purpose news reader to the market (and ways that we can make such an application available free of charge to existing iNewz customers). More on this once we have analysed our options here.