Steve Jobs: want porn, go to Android
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is once again hitting the send button and lighting the internet on fire, this time telling someone who would prefer parental controls over outright bans that if he wants porn, he can go Android. (Is that what the kids are calling it these days?)
The email from Matthew Browing, who also expressed [...]
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UPDATED: Pulitzer Prize winning satirist can’t get into App Store
UPDATE: According to the WSJ, Apple has contacted Fiore:
Apple called the cartoonist Thursday and suggested that he resubmit the app, Mr. Fiore said in an interview. “I feel kind of guilty,” he said. “I’m getting preferential treatment because I got the Pulitzer.”
Preferential perhaps but not uncommon. Several controversial app rejections have been reconsidered [...]
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Apple removes Dashboard-style apps from iPad App Store
Here are the first (to our knowledge) class of apps to get removed from the brand new iPad App Store: Dashboards.
Desktop, for example, no longer shows up via its iTunes link.
These apps leveraged the large iPad display to offer multiple windows and mini-apps/widgets to get around some of iPhone 3.2’s 3rd party multitasking [...]
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Apple Cracking Down on Mass Produced, Low Functionality Apps?
TechCrunch is reporting that companies who mass produce (or provide tools and templates for the mass production of) “cookie cutter” apps are hearing that they need to add differentiation and functionality or risk Apple not allowing them into the iTunes App Store. Jason Kincaid says:
Between the developers I spoke to, the consensus was [...]
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