Apple to App Developer: Remove the Most Useful Function, Please

I'll repeat what I commented on Mashable... the "most useful feature" (which is "freeing memory" not "showing free memory, that still works) generate a lot of crash reports.<p>Whenever you hit the "free memory button" iStat fill the memory of the device until it receive a "low memory warning". In the mean time all background apps are zapped which includes Mail, iPod, ...<p>I can see why Apple is annoyed to receive crash reports because an app willingly force theirs to crash (gracefully).<p>Still, iStat is a great app, beautifull and functionnal. I personnaly won't miss this feature.

Author fails to mention that they are using an undocumented API to retrieve this information. Staying away from undocumented API's has been the rule since day one.

No this is COMPLETE BS. I haven't cared about Google Voice and all of the other apps that were rejected. But I have personally used iStat and it's predecessor app for a long time. It was the only bloody way for me to know if my edge &#38; 3g phones were going to crash from lack of memory. I have never had problems with these apps. As long as you followed the clearly written instructions about how to free up more memory, you were fine. This is some official bullshit.

There must be a reason for this.<p>Maybe they run some spyware in the background you could suspect to exist once you compared the memory you use yourself with the memory still available?<p>It's easy to spy on others using their iPhones and there are several ways the iPhone calls home or can be remotely run by Apple (for instance to delete prohibited apps) so that would be no wonder.