What happened to the app?

[Fofer]

I see it's no longer available in the App Store. Why? What
happened? I accidentally deleted it and now I can't find it to re-
download.

[Peter Boctor]

Apple removed Tomatoes from the App store yesterday with no
explanation.

We have a pending request with them to try and find out why it was
removed.

-peter

[Josh Rafofsky]

They did the same thing to "Box Office" which, in my opinion, was the
best movie times app out there.

I certainly am very curious to know what's going on. I can't
imagine Rotten Tomatoes complained?

[Fofer]

Still no answer? No comment whatsoever from Apple?

On Aug 1, 10:49 pm, "Josh Rafofsky" <userfrien...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They did the same thing to "Box Office" which, in my opinion, was the
> best movie times app out there.
>
> I certainly am very curious to know what's going on.    I can't
> imagine Rotten Tomatoes complained?
>

[Fofer]

I'm guessing the NDA precludes the developer from sharing any new
information... but I've done enough reading and researching to
discover what I think is the reason the app was removed.

I imagine it's then same reason BigBucket's Tomatometer web app (and
dashboard widget) was disabled:
http://www.bigbucketblog.com/2008/08/06/what-happened-to-tomatometer/

The licensing terms of RT restrict "full searches;" third party
software is only licensed to use what's in the syndicated feed (ie:
Tomatometer scores of current releases.) Fox/IGN probably complained
and got it pulled. :(

Similar discussion going on about this on MacRumors forum, and how it
relates to the "Box Office" app:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6034591#post6034591

I am sad that I had no backup of Tomatoes.app, I had to do a restore
and lost my copy of this app. I suppose my question is... would it
still work if I still have it installed? Or would it be broken, just
like the aforementioned web app? (I'd feel better about losing it, if
it were the latter. ;) )

In any case, I hope Fox/IGN offer their own version of this sometime.
If they don't, it's really crappy that they forced this one to
disappear.

[tomco...@gmail.com]

Hey Guys.
This App looks like a great idea and i was wondering if it was
possible to put it on cydia or installer or something.
That would be great