In another move to better the lives of users of the iPhone and iPod Touch, less maybe developers whose apps are pulled for no apparent reason who may have actually depended on the revenue stream their previously approved applications generated, Apple has decided that Wi-Fi Detectors that scan for available Wi-Fi hotspots are no longer worthy of being listed in the App Store.
Apple has pulled apps that actively scan for Wi-Fi hotspots, but left those that use a database of hotspots in conjunction with GPS data. One developer, Three Jacks Software, said in a blog post that they received an email from Apple saying that their app, WiFi Where, had been taken down due to the product’s use of ‘private frameworks’ to access wireless information. Other newly-banned apps include WiFiTrack, WiFiFoForum, yFy Network Finder and WiFi Get.
Since there are still apps that Apple hasn’t banned that sort of do the same thing that these banned apps did, this probably isn’t that big a deal. Clearly, searching for Wi-Fi networks via a database is much more effective than scanning for them in real time.  Any HotSpot not listed in an Apple approved application is probably not worth connecting to anyway…
[Via Venture Beat ]