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Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App
cmiller173 writes with word from Wired that "After bad press over banning Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore's app from the app store, Apple has asked him to re-submit the entry."
Must have been a Layer 8 Error.....
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Look where all this talking got us, baby.
google's motto is "do no evil",
apple's moto is "do no bad pulicity"
and they both suck at it.
You really read the article??
But this is Slashdot!
In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
It seems like Apple is rethinking some of it's heavy-handed decisions ...
Naw ... they just want to reject it again to prove they were right the first time. Remember that "Think Different" really means "Think like us" ;-)
Further proof that geeky time-travel-inventors exploring the future first jump on slashdot to see what's going on, and then don't hesitate to post comments.
More likely the creative crowd/apple sheep don't think its "cool" to be banning award winning writers. This would also seem to be at odds with Apples "we are cool"/"you are fool" marketting campain.
Think of MS as the drug dealer outside your school or at a party actively pushing powders, pills and liquids.
The MS dealers also extinguish other drug dealers in the area.
Apple is more the gang suburb or crack house with a loyal following for a known product.
You have to go to them for the Apple "distortion" feel but other gangs and crack houses do exist.
You can always find a Linux grower and cultivate your own digital escape using Nordic tech.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
They lied.
I'm continually surprised by how much crap everyone is willing to put up with from Apple, while worshiping the ground that Steve Jobs walks on. The same guy who actually had to leave Apple before we got an Open Mac. How long before SJ starts selling once-worn mock turtlenecks on eBay for a few extra bucks?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Never heard of Mark Fiore before Apple making a stink out of an app. Checked out Fiore's website and love it, can't wait for the iPad app !!
The best part would be if he "ridiculed" Steve Jobs in his first cartoon after the app goes live. I wonder if Apple would take the joke.
Makes me wish Kafka was still around to try submitting an app.
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Hold on... he has to write it up and put it on a site somewhere.