Unofficial Google Wave App for iPhone Available

Apple are notorious for scrutinizing every app submitted before it’s allowed into its store. Anything that even veers close to breaking one of the rules is shot back to the developer with a long list of things to change before the app will ever see the light of day.

How then, did an unofficial Google Wave app which actually uses the Wave logo and Google brand make it past the checks?

It comes from a small, one-man company called CLapps and it cost $.99 from the App Store. It enables you to use Google Wave on your iPhone in a more streamlined way than using wave.google.com on the Safari Browser.

However, it won’t be there for long. Google will undoubtedly insist that the the infringing app is removed post-haste from the app store. If it’s still there by the time you’re reading this piece then you may want to give it a go by downloading it here.

While this story is an interesting one because both Apple and Google have egg on their faces; the more prominent question should be as to why Google hasn’t launched their own Wave app and why very few people are finding Wave even slightly useful.