Sunday, April 18, 2010

Apple Scruffs: Slate Sorts It Out

Does Apple Need To Get a Sense of Humor?

Apple says that if an app "ridicules public figures," it won't be allowed in iTunes. And that has made the life of political satirists particularly difficult. After animator Mark Fiore won the Pulitzer, the fact that Apple rejected his app back in December suddenly got a lot more press. And Apple asked the animator to resubmit it. Fiore wasn't the first cartoonist to run into problems with Apple's rules, and the company even changed its mind on two previous high-profile rejections. But the problems faced by Fiore showed how the company still hasn't figured out how to deal with political satirists. One MAD artist says Apple's rejection of these types of apps should be taken seriously, particularly considering that many are seeing the iPad as the future of media. "Apps for publications and newspaper content won't be very useful if it only lets us see stuff that Apple and Steve Jobs thinks we should see, and rejects things they don't like," Tom Richmond wrote.
Read original story in The Washington Post | Saturday, April 17, 2010
If, say, Just Another Blog™ were to go hardware w/one of these fucking two-way wrist radios, we wouldn't bring it near the public before there was a "mock your fucking ass, public or private figure" app on it.

Just A Note (From L.A.): We are working on an M1911A1 App. Still having a problem w/ the recoil, but we think we can use the accelerometer to solve that. BANG!!

And a comment:
I expect better from Steve "Dead Hobo's Liver" Jobs, but it's not as if there won't be a Google Android tablet on the shelves in six months.

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