True, WikiLeaks is a tad controversial at the moment, no thanks to the ongoing court battle involving its founder Julian Assange and a couple of Swedish girls. Unfortunately, this Wikileaks app was unofficial, and charging $2.49 per download of the app since it popped up on the App Store on December 17.
The app description had said: “The WikiLeaks app gives instant access to the world’s most documented leakage of top secret memos and other confidential government documents. You can now have all of the sensitive WikiLeaks data easily available on your iPhone…”
It’s the act of charging for free information when the organisation has a non-profit status (and lack of an official app), which could be the reason why Apple chose to remove the Wikileaks app. Or maybe it was too sensitive a subject for Apple, which has been known to shy away from controversial apps. [@Wikileaksapp via iPhonedownloadblog via TechCrunch]
Art Nau
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 8:47 AMthats kind of expected from the n-A-zies…
Damo
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 9:34 AMThat’s a tad unfair. They were charging for the not for proffit’s free info,not doing the bidding of the nazis.
olearymo
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 10:05 AMsweet lighting effect in the app. I know it’s just a simple thing, but nice.
ranga
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 2:34 PMagreed. like some shady back-alley handover.
BTW anyone know if these Swedish girls are even hot?
Michael
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 1:08 PMIs it not the same as any other app that charges simply by collecting news stories? Most have a ‘lite’ version with ad’s that Apple collects revenue from……
Paul
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 3:08 PMCan anyone say Installous?
matt
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 12:23 PMlol! charging for stuff you can get for free everywhere else? I thought that was iOS’s motto!