Apple removes app that turned your iPhone into a classic iPod
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Apple removes app that turned your iPhone into a classic iPod
No click wheel for you!
My two cents: Even though Apple has not seen a cent from its classic, yet long-discontinued iPods with the click wheels, it has decided to throw its weight and its unused trademark around to ruin everyone's fun. I'm not for any type of IP infringement, but in this case, come on Apple. This is why we can't have nice things.
Last week saw the US launch of a music player that could be skinned to make your iPhone look like the old iPod Classic with the click wheel. This week Apple has pulled it from the App Store.
The music player is called Rewound. It had been out in China and Russia for a while before making its way west, where it shot up to number 19 on the charts for US music apps. While it does not come installed with the iPod skin, the user-created interface could be downloaded, giving the player that nostalgic look and feel of the long-defunct Apple device.
On Tuesday, app designer Louis Anslow announced that Apple has removed Rewound from the store. He said that the tech giant claims it pulled the music player because it infringes on its iPod design, charged for Apple Music features, and people might mistake it for an Apple product.
Layout1 (default) of the app interface
Anslow contends that the app itself looks nothing like an iPod (above). The user-created skins have been around since before the app was available in the US. Apple didn't seem to have an issue with them until the click-wheel interface started going viral.
At this point, the fate of the iOS music player is unclear. Anslow said that if the team tries to update Rewound to get it re-approved, it will "break" the app for the more than 170,000 exist