Psonar’s iPhone app was finally approved by Apple on Christmas Eve – but in a form that has some significant differences from the original submitted in August. Most significant is that you can’t register through the app – you have to that do on the Psonar website (and you have to return to the Psonar website to buy additional Credits).
That said, you can still play anything you want, create playlists and tweet them or send them to your Facebook timeline – and, most important of all, you can gift tracks and playlists to other people straight out of the app. Here’s what it looks like in iTunes:
Psonar in iTunes Preview
Apple’s determination to maintain high standards for the user experience with iPhone and iPad apps is laudable and has set the standard by which smartphone apps on all platform are measured. That said, I don’t really understand why Apple considers Psonar’s Pay-Per-Play payment model to be ‘rental’ and thereby contrary to App Store guidelines. Still, we’ve found ourselves in good company in having to separate payment from use to get the Psonar app approved – Amazon Kindle, LoveFilm and NetFlix have had to do the same as well.
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