Apple has been known to be very consistent with their efforts in not allowing open-source applications penetrate their App Store and it has set of very strict guidelines in its application process and the implementation of its app development program. In fact, at some point, app developers have complained about the very prohibitive measures being undertaken by Apple to ensure that its software and hardware is protected at all times and not open for scrutiny and experimentation unless the one doing it is duly authorized by Apple itself.
In another totally different galaxy, Bittorrent has been known as a platform being utilized by many in downloading software, applications, and other stuff on the internet that infringes third party rights and it is most unlikely that Apple will come into partnership with Bittorent considering the fact that it has been guarding its internal items like Fort Knox. In fact at one time, one of Apple’s spokesperson mentioned: "Because this Bittorent) category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights, we have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store”. Hence, Apple’s acquisition of a Bittorent app was considered highly unlikely.
Nevertheless, it would be surprising to know according to an insider that a Bittorrent application later named by Torrentfreak was just recently approved and made available by Apple, a move which totally contradicts the total barring of all Bittorrent-like products on App Store. And this approval was the very first of its nature considering there is a wall blocking the entry of Bittorrent to the Apple world.
Imageshack’s downloading web capabilities can now be controlled using the interface provided by the Bittorrent app IS Drive. What is stranger (knowing Apple having an aversion to similar application capacity) is that from now on, with this IS Drive app, users can now add torrent files that they see on the web to their Imageshack downloading queue. It simply works just like your garden variety Bittorrent software. Developer Derek Kepner had an answer to this saying: "I always had the thought that if I didn't call the app a 'torrent client', Apple would probably let it through the review process. After all, there is no real torrenting happening on the client side. It's not a torrent client. It's an ImageShack Drive client."
However, Kepner is still considering installing updates on the new app thinking that the app’s capacity of accessing Bittorrent service sites such as Pirate Bay may cause him trouble over his partnership with Apple.
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