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In yet another sign of the App Store's imperfections, Apple has banned the third largest App Store developer, getting rid of almost a thousand applications. Once you see what applications they "developed", you will see why.

Sure glad we aren't having the problems they are having in Germany! I love the Skype iPhone app!

at least we're better off than the folks in Germany, where the country's official provider, T-Mobile, wants to ban use of the Skype app on both its 3G network and its extensive Wi-Fi hot spot network. Not only has T-Mobile said that the use of Skype is forbidden, but it's also declared its intent to cancel the contracts of any users who use workarounds to run the program anyway. The company's reasoning is that the program's high data use would choke the network infrastructure and that it violates the customer contract, prohibiting VoIP--a clause apparently used by all other German mobile service providers as well.

Let's face it, the App Store has been tested quite a bit in the past few weeks and now, yet another popular application has fallen from its ranks.