Apple this week continued its crackdown against what it feels are substandard applications in its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch, this time removing Wi-Fi scanners and software it said has "minimum user functionality."
According to the development studio Three Jacks Software, Apple removed its application, called "WiFi-Where," due to its alleged use of unpublished APIs within the iPhone OS software development kit. The developer noted that other applications, including WifiTrak, WiFiFoFum, yFy Network Finder, WiFi Get, eWifi, and WiFi Analyzer were also removed.
I use WifiTrack frequently when I'm out and about to quickly locate a wifi hotspot and the strongest signal. It's a much better way to search for a wifi signal than the cumbersome method of going to settings, clicking wifi and then waiting for the list to repopulate. And there's no indication in the settings network chooser of hidden networks whose ssid isn't published.
WTF, Apple?
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