Greg In The Desert

There’s two high profile rejections of applications to the App store for the iPhone. In both cases they were rejected because Apple says they duplicated functionality already provided by Apple.

Podcaster is an application that lets you download podcasts directly on your iphone. According to Apple it duplicates functionality of the iPod application. Although it can play podcasts like the iPod application, the iPod application requires you to download them to your computer and sync them to the iPod app.

MailWrangler is an application lets you view Gmail email. According to Apple it duplicated the function of the built in Mail application. They can both can download Gmail but MailWrangler was for only Gmail accounts and was designed to switch between Gmail accounts easily.

Apple doesn’t publish the criteria about what will be accepted. That’s a problem when you spend considerable time developing your app then find out after you put in the effort that it’s rejected. Now that you have seen two application and you start to get an idea of what Apple considers not acceptable, I introduce an application that seems to fit in the same category but was accepted to the Application store.

Introducing iExchange. It duplicates the function of the built-in Calendar application and connects to Exchange servers, which the Calendar app can also do. Exchange compatibility was one of the big features Apple touted for OS 2.0. Yet here we have an application which does the same basic thing.

Soon enough you won’t want to live without it anymore. With iExchange Remote Calendar you can access your colleagues Microsoft Exchange based calendars from wherever you are! Use your iPhone to check if your colleague’s at the office or if he or she is available for a meeting. iExchange Remote Calendar features: Read access to all public Exchange calendars of your colleagues OVER THE AIR!! Connection to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 or 2007 with WebDAV and OWA HTTP and HTTPS are supported Select any public calendar on the Exchange Server Shows a time period of +/- 7/21 and 60 days from current date Only the first two lines of an entry are displayed. As calendar entries cannot be opened, the details of a calendar entry cannot be accessed. Recurrences, entries for one or several days (all day events) are supported Please note: To be able to use this software your company network must meet certain requirements. Therefore, before you order the software, you’ll want to contact your system administrator and check whether or not you can use iExchange. Requirements (Server): Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 or 2007 (standard installation, no custom modifications in the login process) WebDAV and OWA (Outlook Web Access) enabled HTTP or HTTPS connection Requirements for accessing the calendar of a colleague: The user has to grant you read access to his or her calendar. The user or the system administrator can do so in Microsoft Outlook (Windows or Microsoft Entourage for Mac). A tip for Windows-users: If you are working with “Outlook Web Access” and can access Outlook by using the built-it login page, you should be able to use iExchange. A tip for OS-X-users: If you are using Entourage to access your company calendar, you should be able to use iExchange.

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