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Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco
beef curtains writes "Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, responded by e-mail to a blog post discussing Apple's rejection of a dictionary app. If Schiller's e-mail is to be believed, it offers an interesting perspective on this whole issue. He said, 'The issue that the App Store reviewers did find with the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable. ... The Ninjawords developer then decided to filter some offensive terms in the Ninjawords application and resubmit it for approval for distribution in the App Store before parental controls were implemented. Apple did not ask the developer to censor any content in Ninjawords, the developer decided to do that themselves in order to get to market faster. ... You are correct that the Ninjawords application should not have needed to be censored while also receiving a 17+ rating, but that was a result of the developers' actions, not Apple's.' PC World has an article summarizing the drama-to-date, the blog post, and Schiller's response."
As an Apple user I bless thee child, for thou art correct. In the name of the the father Steve Jobs, the Son Phil Schiller and the Holy Ghost Jonathan Ive.
In the beginning Woz created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness of big blue was upon the face of the dos. And the Spirit of Woz moved upon the face of the machines. And Woz said, Let there be light: and there was a happy startup chime, a little smiley Mac and light form a tiny glowing screen. And Woz saw the little smiley Mac, that it was good: and Woz divided the light from the dos. And Woz called the light a Mac, and the dos he called the evil IBM compatibles. And the evening and the morning were the first all night LAN party...