Information Madness

Apple has managed to effectively pull the Camera+ application from the App Store earlier this morning thanks to a hidden feature Apple disagrees with.

The top-rated photography app from developer tap tap tap, has been pulled from the App Store, most likely for violating Apple's developer agreement. Apple previously rejected an update to the Camera+ app which would have allowed users to use one of the iPhone's volume buttons as a mechanical shutter button while using Camera+.

This is a feature many iPhone photographers have wished for tapping the screen to take a picture is far less stable than pressing a physical button but Apple cited "user confusion" in rejecting the Camera+ update which included the feature.

So TapTapTap made a non-jailbreak workaround to enable the VolumeSnap feature by just visiting camplus://enablevolumesnap in the mobile Safari.

Hopefully this ban is only temporary until Camera+ gets updated without the "workaround" in place or, better still, Apple could recognize that many users have triple-digit IQs and stop citing "user confusion" as an excuse for denying useful functionality. Either way, I hope Camera+ comes back eventually.