Sketchy MP3 Downloader Soars to No. 1 in iPhone App Store
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A sketchy music downloader surpassed Angry Birds on Tuesday to become the best-selling iPhone app in Apple’s App Store.
Minutes after Wired.com staff bought the music downloader, Apple yanked it from the App Store.
The app, called Any Music Downloader, allowed customers to find any MP3 on the web and download it onto the iPhone drive. From there, you could play downloaded songs through the Any Music Downloader app.
It’s like having a free iTunes music store on the iPhone. On the road and aching to hear the latest Radiohead album? Visit an MP3 website such as Mp3skull.com, search for the songs, label the file and hit download, and the songs are yours to keep.
After downloading a song onto the iPhone, you can sync it to iTunes on your computer, and then you can copy the downloaded songs into your iPhone’s iPod player.
That’s nowhere near as convenient as iTunes, but it’s seamless enough for the price of $0 per track.
It’s questionable whether the app was legal: the browser inside the app allowed you to navigate to any MP3-serving website, legal or not, to grab music.
Clearly Apple wasn’t pleased, since the company quickly yanked the app. Apple hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
The Any Music Downloader app was $2 when it soared to No. 1 in the paid apps list on Tuesday. Previously, it was priced at $10.
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