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Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps?
jamie pointed out what appears to be an unfortunate policy for Apple's app store that is refusing anything to do with BitTorrent. The example is a remote control app that allows a user to interface with their Transmission BitTorrent client. This certainly isn't the first complaint over app store policy. Issues from the return policy to the "objectionable content" of Nine Inch Nails have some developers concerned over what Apple is doing to the market. Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.
It's Apple's store but it's the only store
Another Apple Hater being willfully ignorant of reality.
There is Cydia you know. Only a few million Jailbroken phones but that's nothing to sneeze at.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Is it really stealing if the media conglomerates refuse to sell it in other countries?
Yes it is, if you dont buy it from the sellers how they want to sell. But this has been debated forever already, and you must be a retard not to understand it.
Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.
Kind of like it is Microsoft's operating system, and they are free do anything they like with it. Except, it seems, provide a web browser.
How is it anti competitive? They are not the only smart phone maker, and there are other ways to install software on their phone. granted they do not actively support or acknowledge those other methods but they exist.
I do wish you people would grow up and stop harping on this monopoly shit. A monopoly is the perfect place for a business to be in and is not illegal.
Why bother
Are you referring to the DMCA violation known as "jailbreaking"? How deliciously absurd.
The DMCA does not cover jailbreaking. There are well north of a million devices jailbroken now...
Your saying Jailbreaking does not count is like saying no-one speeds on the highway because it is "illegal". Talk about absurd!
I'm sure in your tiny black Apple-Hating heart you sure wish Jailbreaking could not be done because of some silly law so you could rightfully act all snobbish towards the supposedly snobby Apple users, but in reality here on Earth people Jailbreak if they want alternate apps. Just like some apps you can't get on the Android store and have to go elsewhere for as well - there's just one extra step for the iPhone, but it's so easy to do anyone can who cares to. You see unlike yourself, Apple users generally tend to be practical people who use whatever tools that work, whoever makes them.
It's not even like an app on a Cydia store would get tons less exposure because there are so many apps on the iPhone store now it's hard to get noticed no matter where you are.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Most of us don't need apps on our cell phones.
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What percentage of BitTorrent traffic would be non-infringing if the RIAA and MPAA didn't continuously give a negative connotation to the technology?
Wait, what? The majority of BitTorrent traffic is illegal only because the RIAA and MPAA mention that BitTorrent is used for exchanging illegal files? Is this some weird use of the "mind over matter" principle? Instead of, for example, the RIAA and MPAA calling the spade a spade.
MP3 became a considerably more popular audio format because of the widespread use of Napster,
So Napster was Ok because it allowed one audio format (which existed before Napster) become more popular?
It could even be argued that Apple wouldn't even have as strong of a user-base without Napster's influence.
It could also be argued that Apple's iTMS would have done three times the business if most users hadn't already amassed a large Napster-obtained MP3 collection. Of course, Apple doesn't even use your miraculous MP3 file format.
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Right, except now they're regulating other people's products (apps), because the App Store is the only outlet for these apps. You can't even set up your own self-distribution anymore, they locked that down with one of the updates, and made the "developer installation" tedious enough to render it commercially unviable. The fact that they arbitrarily reject applications based on their own hyper-conservative/protective opinions just makes it so much more personal.
That's more like Ford going to every single Jiffy Lube, raising 400-ton steel doors in front of the auto bays with a lock only Ford can open, and then telling all owners of red Mustangs to go fuck themselves. After all, there's a chance they might be illegal street racers, so let's just assume they're all guilty.
There are some good torrents, and some bad ones. It's not Apple's place to discriminate. Need an analogy ? There are some good black people, and some bad ones too. Does that mean Apple should ban all black people from owning an iPhone because they might be criminals ? How is the BitTorrent issue any different ?
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