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Found: Aurora Feint iPhone App

I searched the apps store tonight for Aurora Feint after some great reviews from Macbreak Weekly. After a few searches and scanning I couldn’t find it at all, apparently it was kicked off the iPhone app store - for security issues.

Luckily I was able to find a link from a “customers also bought” list.

I wont be able to give any reviews but I’m for sure not going to use any of the community features, since it scans your address book and sends it to their servers unencrypted to find your friends playing at the same time. A fantastic idea but poorly implemented. At least the developers knew it was wrong in the first place but they felt rushed to get it out for the launch.

aside: I do think apple did the right thing, I don’t think anyone in their right mind would think different. But Apple is supposed to be looking at all these apps first andI’m sure they wont let something like this fly by them again - especially since it sounds like they’re taking more time to review.

This is why I think an app store is a good idea, Apple doesn’t care to “control you”, they want to make sure you don’t experience something insecure or faulty. Then again, neither of which is happening to perfection just yet, whether its due to the rushed approvals for launch or not.

Update: That was fast. They’re back in the store with “apple’s endorsement”. Check out Jason’s comment below.

iPhone 2.0 Apps

Here’s a screen grab of all the apps I’ve downloaded already. I can’t give any full reviews just yet; no time and I haven’t played with them all just yet. First impressions though:

AIM: Why did I download that, I don’t use aim. Looking forward to a GTalk (native) app, the special iPhone web version will do for now.

Facebook: Pretty awesome. It’s going to be a great contacts backup.

Google Mobile App: I don’t really get it. It’s a start page for all of their iPhone web apps but has some great search functionality on the start page.

Loopt: Very interesting. It’s going to be a cool Twitter app, because of it’s location based social features.

Twitteriffic: Excellent twitter app: location, photos and all tweets. I hope Hahlo comes out with a premium app, I’d really like to see summize integration.

Pandora: didn’t work so well on edge the first time. Let’s see how it works tomorrow on 3G. I’m really stocked about this one.

Remote: Oh man, can’t wait to get this hooked up to the AppleTV.

Super Monkey Ball: graphics are excellent for a phone but I’m not very good at it…yet.

and the best app so far…

Enigmo: This game is fun. It’s going to be a blast to play this in line somewhere or just waiting around.

What I’m really looking forward to is the Wordpress App, now Jared and I wont be asked to update Mobile Admin anymore.