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Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store
ink writes "Here is another troubling anecdote on the iWeb front: 'This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize for animations he created for SFGate, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle... But there's just one problem. In December, Apple rejected his iPhone app, NewsToons, because, as Apple put it, his satire "ridicules public figures," a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which bars any apps whose content in "Apple's reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory."' Whether or not you agree with Fiore's political sentiments, I believe we can all agree that the censorship of his work should be denigrated."
Have you used a dictionary recently?
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
In that case there are even more children on /. than I thought.
Except unlike IBM or MS, Apple has never held a monopoly on anything.
They don't have a monopoly over what gets sold on the iTunes store? They don't have a monopoly over iPads? iPhones?
Neither IBM nor MS ever required approval over the software that could run on their device. Neither IBM nor MS ever built an infrastructure with the express intent of blocking any and all competition. Nothing either of these entities has ever done stands out as as evil as what Apple is doing today.
You're right that there's really no comparison, but you have it completely backwards. Marketshare isn't nearly as important as the vileness of their intent. We, as a people, could elect to stop it, if we were so inclined.
Monopoly is bad only if it's anti-competitive. I don't give fuck about monopoly as much as I do about anti-competitive behavior. Now go and fuck yourself.