In August, a programmer named Alex Sokirynsky wrote a clever app to let iPhone users stream or download podcasts straight from their phones. (Ordinarily, the iPhone can play only the podcasts you’ve downloaded through your computer.) Sokirynsky submitted the program, called Podcaster, for inclusion in Apple’s iPhone App Store—the only way for third-party developers to [...]

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