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Why is anyone surprised? Anyone choosing to develop for the AppStore is in the position of a sharecropper iin APple's Orchard. (Reg Brathwaite wrote an awsome

Why is anyone surprised? Anyone choosing to develop for the AppStore is in the position of a sharecropper iin APple's Orchard. (Reg Brathwaite wrote an awsome article on this at http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard.html http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...) The owner reserves the right to be as much of a dick as he wants to be, wrt how his land is used by the sharecroppers. That's how sharecropping works. There is nothing in wrong in being a sharecropper if that is what someone wants to do, but I don't get the angst. When the owner says "jump" the correct response from a sharecropper is "How high"?

colinplamondon 17y ago
From the beginning, Apple's said 'No Porn'. That was never rescinded, they just eased the acceptance a bit as people poked and prodded the boundaries. People were looking to make a quick buck by skirting the rules. This isn't a matter of Apple being dickish, this is a matter of folks taking known risks and getting whacked on the head for it.
- silencio 17y ago
  Apple first disapproved of adult content. Then they added rather draconian ratings for apps and of course, parental controls. Then borderline-adult content started being really popular on the store. If Apple really really really didn't want this content on the app store, they shouldn't've approved it in the first place. Can we really expect any other situation? And why couldn't Apple go one step further with ratings/controls and provide an adults-only app store area? My biggest concern (other than the lack of adult content available to me) is that Apple can first approve and be okay with selling such content, and then turn around and remove them all from the app store because other people supposedly complained too much about a specific group of apps. It was bad enough dealing with their arbitrarily defined and enforced restrictions and approval guidelines. Okay, they're the gatekeepers, and they can do whatever they want, but that makes it a lot harder for me to work as I really don't know what Apple's whims will be like when it comes to an app idea I'm considering.

colinplamondon 17y ago

From the beginning, Apple's said 'No Porn'. That was never rescinded, they just eased the acceptance a bit as people poked and prodded the boundaries. People were looking to make a quick buck by skirting the rules. This isn't a matter of Apple being dickish, this is a matter of folks taking known risks and getting whacked on the head for it.

silencio 17y ago
Apple first disapproved of adult content. Then they added rather draconian ratings for apps and of course, parental controls. Then borderline-adult content started being really popular on the store. If Apple really really really didn't want this content on the app store, they shouldn't've approved it in the first place. Can we really expect any other situation? And why couldn't Apple go one step further with ratings/controls and provide an adults-only app store area? My biggest concern (other than the lack of adult content available to me) is that Apple can first approve and be okay with selling such content, and then turn around and remove them all from the app store because other people supposedly complained too much about a specific group of apps. It was bad enough dealing with their arbitrarily defined and enforced restrictions and approval guidelines. Okay, they're the gatekeepers, and they can do whatever they want, but that makes it a lot harder for me to work as I really don't know what Apple's whims will be like when it comes to an app idea I'm considering.