Apple rejects drone tracking app

The maker of an application that would alert iPhone users to US military drone strikes has saidthat Apple has repeatedly shot down his efforts to get it into the App Store. “I just wanted to make a simple app that would send a push notification every time there is a drone strike,” Begley told Agence France Press. “I was thinking about how hidden the drone war is and about ways to play with what happens in the pockets of smartphone users,” the New York University graduate student continued. Begley said that Drones+ was rejected twice by Apple on technical grounds since he first submitted it to the Cupertino, California-based maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macintosh computers in July.

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