Issue 37 - metasyntactic - "The item you've requested is no longer available."

Issue 37:	"The item you've requested is no longer available."
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Status:	Fixed
Owner:	----
Closed:	Aug 2008
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by josalofilms, Jul 31, 2008

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Delete BoxOffice
2. Go to App Store, try to get
3. view error: "The item you've requested is no longer available."

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Even viewing the BoxOffice "page" at the App Store produces the above message, any further 
action is forestalled.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm afraid I deleted it, so I cannot check the version. The precipitating event was an announced 
update on 7/31. The update did not process, so I deleted the old one and tried redownloading it.

Please provide any additional information below.

 Thanks for a great App, hope to use it again, when this gets sorted.

Comment 1 by samhankins, Aug 01, 2008

Box Office is one of the best apps available, or at least it was...when it was, you 
know, available.  I inadvertantly deleted it while "syncing" my apps (no idea how 
that happened).  Any idea when it'll be back?  It was truly a magnificent piece of 
work.

Comment 2 by nalbela, Aug 01, 2008

I had problems loading it and decided to delete it and reinstall it again.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to search for it anywhere.
I miss it!  Please please please.. I would love to have it back.

Comment 3 by cyrus.najmabadi, Aug 01, 2008

I'm looking into seeing why BoxOffice was pulled from the appstore.

Comment 4 by distortedloop, Aug 04, 2008

Isn't open source and your GNU licensing a violation of Apple's SDK...?  That's my bet on why you were yanked 
from iTunes.

Comment 5 by jasonjei, Aug 04, 2008

By that token, shouldn't WeDict and Wordpress be pulled? I'd like to see Apple pull Wordpress out and 
watch the public backlash.

Comment 6 by distortedloop, Aug 04, 2008

@jasonjei - is the source code for WeDict and/or WordPress' iPhone versions publicly available and published 
under GPL or other open licenses?  If not, no, they wouldn't be banned by Apple.  If yes, and my belief that 
this is the issue for some of the apps disappearing is true, then Apple will eventually ban them if they don't 
change their policy.

It's all about the NDA and SDK licensing.  I'm pretty sure the SDK licensing and App Store agreement forbid 
making the program or code available anywhere else.  App developers aren't even allowed to talk amongst 
themselves about how to optimize their code according to many news sources.  If they can't talk about it, then 
surely having it on a site like Google or Sourceforge available for anyone to download and contribute to the 
project is an issue for Apple.

I'm just speculating, I have no real knowledge of why Apple is killing some seemingly innocuous apps.

Comment 7 by cyrus.najmabadi, Aug 04, 2008

This bug report is not the appropriate place for this discussion.  If you want to discuss the GPL, or make 
hypothetical guesses as to why Apple pulled the app, please do so elsewhere.  Thanks very much.

I'm not going to delete any comments made before now.  But i will delete any that follow that offtopic.

Comment 8 by youngjm, Aug 11, 2008

Any further updates on getting your app restored?

Comment 9 by cyrus.najmabadi, Aug 13, 2008

The app has been returned to the store

Status: Fixed