Slashdot Mirror
Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices
isBandGeek() writes "After a few reasonable App Store bans, such as the ones on I Am Rich and NetShare, developers started complaining about excessive restrictions on applications like Podcaster and MailWrangler, supposedly because they provided 'duplicate functionality.' In response, Apple rubbed salt in their wounds by slapping non-disclosure agreements on application rejection notices. Now developers are not even allowed to tell their fanbase that Apple decided to withhold approval for an application. Is Apple confident that Google's open platform Android won't be much of a threat?"
They're not taking away your right to free speech. It's their platform, nobody is shoving the iPhone down your throat. If you don't want to develop for it, don't! Remember that just like everywhere else in life, for every batch of good apps, there are just as many apps that compromise the stability and hence the desirability of the iPhone. All that Apple wants to do is have quality apps available to their customers. They're not trying to have control over your life. If you ran a business you'd do the same exact thing. I know this is flamebait, but I'm just tired of people whining about technology products not living up to their ever-so-important expectations.
I say "Hey Idaho, if you want to use these tools, then you have to promise not to talk about any emails you get from me regarding them."
You say "Sure, man". Then later you try to claim that you didn't really mean the bit about not talking about emails from me. Hey, its an agreement. No backsies. Don't like it, GTFO.
Either that or you can claim you took the software from their website without the agreement. IIRC that opens you up to all the nasties of Illegal Access To Another Mans Internets (5 years jail) or Digital Trespass As In Bits And Bytes And Not Really Finger In The Ass, But You May Get That With (2 years in jail).
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
How the heck could parent have been modded insightful after perr review? Oh wait, this is /.
FYI, the iPhone is sold in over 60 coutries and I'm sure consumers and carriers their couldn't give a rat's ass about AT&T's greedy policies:
United States Germany UK France Ireland Argentina Australia Australia Austria Austria Belgium Botswania Brazil Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chile Columbia Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Dominican Republic Dominica Ecuador Egypt Egypt El Savador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Finland French Guiana Greece Guatemala Guinea Bissau Guinea Conakry Honduras India India India Italy Italy Ivory Coast (Cote dâ(TM)Ivorie) Jamaica Jordan Kenya Latvia Lithuania Madagascar Martinique Mali Mauritius Mexico Nevis St Kitts New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Norway Paraguay Peru Philipines Philipines Poland Portugal Portugal Puerto Rico Reunion Romania Senegal Singapore Slovakia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Switzerland Turkey Uruguay
Don't like it, GTFO.
Eat shit, fanboy.
Apple is more Draconian than Microsoft ever was. So, what's the problem? ~:-)
Oh... oh yeah? Well... well, shut up, you NERD!!!!1!1!!1
(smacks you in the head and then runs away, embarrassed)
Not sure where you get your information, but as of Spring of 2008, iTunes is the largest retailer of music in the US. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080402-apple-passes-wal-mart-now-1-music-retailer-in-us.html The reason the platform needs to be iTunes compatible is because iTunes is the reason people buy ipods and even the iPhone. There have been many great mp3 players, but they always get crushed by Apple. Apple currently has 73% of the mp3 player market not because of the hardware,but because of the whole experience. The iTunes front end just makes it easy and easy sells. I'm interested in the Android phone, but if its like using most open source products, I'll stay with the iPhone and AT&T. I don't have the time to search for plug-ins and different software projects to make most open source projects work. And I'm sure the phone will be in "beta" for the next 10 years! You get what you pay for as they say.
1. No replaceable battery?
2. Proprietary charging/data connector?
3. Restrictive "mono" bluetooth support?
4. Can't use non-Apple headsets?
5. Doesn't sync to Linux?
6. Have to jailbreak it to return function other handsets have by default?
7. Ridiculously-restrictive AppStore?
8. Can't install my own applications without a signed NDA and key?
9. Fragile glass face?
10. No proper keyboard?
11. Camera can't record video?
12. No memory card support?
13. Capacitive touchscreen (not resistive)?
1. Nobody cares
2. Nobody cares, the cable comes with it, and a replacement is cheap
3. You can use any bluetooth headset
4. Yes you can
5. No gives a fuck
6. Only functions I can think of are tethering and bluetooth transfers
7. Yeah I hate having an app store
8. Don't forget the $100 access fee
9. The glass face is far from fragile
`0. the virtual keyboard is better than a real one, in that it allows for a bigger screen
11. who gives a fuck
12. 16GB of internal storage
13. who gives a fuck
All right apple fanboys, lets here your response on this one.