German jugs pulled from iPhone The Federation of German Publishers is up in arms about Apple's new kiddie-friendly policy, as companies struggle to understand if their brands are big enough for porn. Apple's latest policy on iTunes applications is that titillation isn't allowed, unless your brand is "a well-known company with previously published material …
You need to take a good hard look at yourself, before calling others names - we're not talking hard core pron here it's just a little bit of tits and ass (maybe the odd pussy too?). There is nothing 'bad' or 'evil' about naked humans. This is censorship in its most crude form and should be resisted at all costs.
IMHO if there was more nakedness, and a LOT less violence, in the mainstream media/entertainment industry then a lot less people (like you) would have hangups about it and the world be a better place.
Consistent enforcement of rules is. If it's OK for Playboy to show flesh, it's OK for everyone. If it's not OK for Joe Blow, it's not OK for Playboy. Should be quite simple to understand but His Steveness obviously has another agenda. Like letting his friends make dough because then they'll still be his friends or something.
Seriously, people shouldn't bash Apple for this. When you buy a product, it is because you deem its benefits acceptable compared to is lack of features. You buy a DVD player without a USB or Network plug? Don't cry to the maker because "it's essentially a computer, so why did you not include this feature?!?!" You bought it. If it was the only DVD player on the market, well, your desire to watch DVDs may far outweigh your want for a USB or Network plug and you'll buy it regardless. When people buy an Apple product, they feel it is worth the niche market cost and lock-in. Not to mention accepting the Big Brother we-know-whats-good-for-you-take-it-or-leave-it marketing and development. If you don't own an Apple product yet, go ahead and flame your reasons for not buying their "crap." But when you become a paying customer, you waive that right.
I am not bothered one way or the other about whether they allow porn, but once again Apple seems to breach EU competition laws.
It is high time someone reported Apple to the EU regarding its restrictive practices including, Itunes only software load, restricting users from using equipment as they see fit with the threat of an invalidated warranty, restriction of features like bluetooth, VoIP etc and now this daft policy.
Apple is a dominant player in its sector and bullies software developers on a whim. Until the EU grows some balls and starts investigating Apple I would suggest that developers start looking at the Google Android platform. If Google had any sense it would see this as an opportunity to court Apple Developers to its platform with some porting assistance. Microsoft did this many years ago when it wanted to get people to it's new platform called Windows.
I thought it was already self-evident. The rules are whataver His Jobsness decides they are when he gets up in the morning.
A serious, professional business sets guidelines that are clear and then enforces them mercilessly. Apple, in not having set clear guidelines and enforcing rules that are known after the fact, is seriously putting itself forth as not being a professional business environment.
That, of course, irks the other professional businesses to no end. And they will rock the Apple boat until the situation clears up : either Apple stops inventing new rules without telling anyone until the cat is already out of the bag, or these important corporations will probably stop playing with Apple.
And that, in the long run, is going to hurt Apple more than help it.
Talking about the bottom line, of course.
Because you can go on and on about how the "little" developers will always be coming to the Apple "platform", once enough of them have had their app yanked without explanation, there WILL be backlash.
And everyone knows how hard it is to recover from burning your developers.
Well, everyone except Apple, apparently.
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Must be so insanely awesome to try to make money selling your work through the iTunes Store. Talk about disposable. I guess you are trying to sell to people with disposable income, so it's "fair play". As Steve would say : "Just change your job. No big deal!"
Sent from my stolen, jailbroken iPad.
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