Bad news for broken iPhone photo apps
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 4:56PM | Glyn Evans Following on from my original post listing the photo apps that no longer work following the iPhone 3.0 update, there seems to be some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that most of the popular photo apps that did not work with 3.0, apps like Pano, have been updated and now work.
The bad news is, that it looks like those apps that Apple now say are using unauthorised API's or use of camera interface like QuadCamera and Darkroom, may never work as the comment from reader Jacques indicates.
"Just got an update from Apple Expert support in Texas, their stance is that it is up to each developer to provide support for existing apps under 3.0 or if you do want to attempt a refund of the app you must also contact the developer of the app. So if the developers say they have working versions and Apple is just denying them, then we are at a stand still."
The current apps that still do not work, and may never work due to Apple's stance are:
- QuadCamera
- Darkroom and Darkroom Premium
- Quick Shot
- Bullcam
- Molopix
- 25shot
- StandardCam
- NightCamera
- Genius Camera
- Zoom Camera
- SepiaCamera
- MicroSurface
- iview
- Chimera
- ProCamera
- DeloriCam
If I have missed any broken apps then please add them to the comments and I will update this list of broken apps.
If you have any working apps, then please check out the list in my previous post and update any new working apps via that posts comments.
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Reader Comments (7)
As for SepiaCamera v1.0 still works perfectly on my iPhone with 3.0.
Fortunately I am a beta tester of many of the apps & have working versions under 3.0.
I was unaware of iView being one not getting approved but I have always had newer betas & so far i too have the working 3.0 version with all bug fixes, UI enhancements & great new save functions.
Too bad the millions of iTunes consumers have to get ripped off by apple after all it was US the people & the Developers who made the app store a huge success!
SCW
really disappointed that Quad Camera and Molopix are not working. Hopefully that will change
i tried out micro surface on my 3.0 updated iphone. it still works if you select photos from photo album. but the camera function is disabled. nothing happens, where unlike darkroom, the app doesnt seem to crash... guess you can say its half do-not-work? =)
That's very disappointing. I LOVED Molopix! :(
Camera Genuis was my favorite camera app. It is now useless after the 3.0 firmware upgrade. 5 emails to the developer have not been anserwed.
bazuemague, this is an on going issue caused by Apple, and the developer whilst should be replying to your emails, is probably stuck between a rock (Apple) and a hard place (Apple).
"The bad news is, that it looks like those apps that Apple now say are using unauthorised API's or use of camera interface like QuadCamera and Darkroom, may never work as the comment from reader Jacques indicates."
if apple wanna go that way! PLEASE PLEAE don't waste it, just put it up in Cydia!