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Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App
theodp writes "TIME reports that four-year-old Maya Nieder's speech-enabling 'Speak for Yourself' app was yanked from the App Store by Apple due to an unresolved patent dispute at the behest of Prentke Romich Company (PRC) and Semantic Compaction Systems (SCS), makers of designated communication devices (not iPad apps). 'The issue of whether or not Apple should have pulled Speak for Yourself from the App Store before the case was decided is trickier. Obviously, Apple would rather be safe than sorry and remove a potentially problematic app instead of risking legal action. The problem, however, is that this isn’t some counterfeit version of Angry Birds.' 'My daughter cannot speak without this app,' writes Maya's mom, Dana. 'She cannot ask us questions. She cannot tell us that she's tired, or that she wants yogurt for lunch. She cannot tell her daddy that she loves him.' If you're so inclined, Dana suggests you drop a note to appstorenotices@apple.com."
I have absolutely no compassion for these people who chose to support a proprietary software ecosystem that they KNOW is run by fascists who care only about money.
I have even less compassion for them if the developer is an Apple fanboy who cannot see past the stars in his eyes, and is blind to the fact that Apple has been bad to developers in general.
Apple has boned developers time and again by not respecting their rights. Anyone who would develop an app they personally need and then distribute it to their own devices via the App Store is a fool when they can use Android and have zero of these problems. Android already has all the significant functionality that the new IOS is getting.
Apple also bones users regularly, when they make an error they tell the customer that it's their fault. B&W G3s have a well-known data corruption error and Apple's answer was "buy an IDE card", not "we will replace this hardware in accordance with the law because it is defective". When Apple folded the TIL into the knowledge base they expunged this article though earlier and later articles made it. Apple will steal from you (in this case, someone is really deprived of something, and the hardware was sold under false pretenses because it does not comply with specifications it claims to meet) and then cover it up.
When you lie down with the dogs, you wake up with disease.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
so is there an app like this for android?
No?
I thought so. the top selling android apps usually have something do to with sitting in a dark basement and rooting and tooting your device and being amazed by the cool cryptic text on the screen instead of doing something useful
A small, defective child that can't communicate without an expensive iFag device. Fuck her. I assume whatever shit prevents her from speaking has been around for ages before the ipad, and people found solutions nonetheless.
And it's not like there are no other high-tech solutions, it's just that mom's little snowflake doesn't want to try another one.
Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer hasn't been produced for several decades. Of course, he can choose another one, but he decided to use the one he has because he likes it, and he's been able to do so for decades without support from the manufacturer. Hawking can't move 99% of his body, this bitch just can't speak. Why should I care about this 4 year old bitch more than I care about one of the brightest minds of the century?
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
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Seriously. Everyone should do what you do. What a wonderful world you live in....