Faux iPhone App Stores Appears Online

A faux iTunes App Store has appeared Internet--and it's a fairly good facsimile of the original. The fake store was created by an ingenious developer, who has made the content of the real iTunes App Store available via any platform's web browser. [via cnet reviews]

The site, app-store.appspot.com, is up and running - but probably not for long.

... Another site, AppBeacon, offers similar functionality.

Justin Noel of AppBeacon.com states: "There are many sites, including ours, that scrape content from the App Store and present it to our users. I don't believe Apple minds, as they actually approve us for the affiliate program manually. If they had a problem with us, then they would just refuse to let us get paid."

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emily | 7:42 PM | Cell Phone Apps Related Articles |
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