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Posts Tagged ‘ rejection ’

Yet more iPhone monkey business from Apple

  • June 27th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

A Techcrunch article (which references this prior article as well slams Apple yet again for more iPhone App Store idiocy, this time centered around the Hottest Girls app. It completely confuses me what Apple is thinking here: add parental controls to the 3.0 version of the iPhone OS, then when an application adds nudity to take [ READ MORE ]

Apple rejects iPhone apps with no reason given

  • June 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

Ars Technica reports on Apple rejecting iPhone applications without offering an explanation. Of particular note: Marco Arment, lead developer of Tumblr and creator of Instapaper, chronicled the situation on his blog. On the last day of WWDC ‘09, Apple had a session dedicated to the process of publishing an iPhone app to its App Store. The [ READ MORE ]

Apple sets a new low in hypocrisy

  • June 3rd, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • By Shawn K. Quinn

Just when you think you’ve seen everything: a recent Mashable article describes a rejection of the EFF’s iPhone application (the EFF’s own article is also available). EFF’s transgression was to include a YouTube video containing a certain profane word (hint: you can only say it once in a PG-13 movie) in its subtitles. The problem here [ READ MORE ]

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