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Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App
- nfnaaron 16y ago"But a representative from 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.”" He should get preferential treatment. He won a freakin' Pulitzer. Better still if it changes behavior, rather than being a one time damage control exercise.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoNo he should NOT get preferential treatment. A private company should not be acting as self appointed censor in the first place. Whether he won a Pulitzer or not, Apple should be in the technology platform business, not trying to insert themselves into the market for ideas, beliefs and information as a gatekeeper. Just because you sell printing presses doesn't mean you get to set the limits on free speech.
- jrockway 16y agoBut what if someone used the printing press to write about the weaknesses of printing presses!? The whole system would collapse. Oh wait, no.
- stcredzero 16y agoIncompleteness isn't applicable to the real world? (It is, just not naively.)
- mtm 16y agoI've noticed that folks commonly neglect the fact that the 1st amendment is specifically talking about the prevention of the -government- from restricting free speech, not individuals, not private entities. While I don't like Apple's current policies regarding the App store (3.3.1, seemingly arbitrary approvals, etc.) it is their store (printing press) and they can control it however they want within the law.
- cageface 16y agoThe problem with this is that Apple is more like a newsstand than a newspaper. Would you be comfortable with your local newsstand only selling papers that printed news it agreed with? What if that newsstand became so popular that other newsstands went out of business?
- cujo 16y agoI don't think this an accurate analogy. Most newsstands won't sell porn for example. And it isn't like those newsstands carry every magazine that might have valid news. They have to pick, and I'm betting they pick them based on what is good business for them. So actually, maybe I'm wrong. Apple is acting like the newsstand in some regard. Just not in the way you outline. If developers would take their stand and forgo the potential of cash in favor of principle, then Apple might be forced to change policies. Until then, nothing is likely to happen.
- siculars 16y agoclearly you, sir, have not been to a newsstand in nyc.
- orangecat 16y ago"Legal" and "not wrong" are only partially intersecting.
- gloob 16y agoAnd when they overlap it's usually more by happy accident than by design.
- nfnaaron 16y agoYes indeed, Apple should treat every submitter with fairness and equality. But they don't. So if this is what it takes to get their attention, huzzah!
- gte910h 16y agoHonestly, I have to say: Talk to the developer relations people when you don't see why they're rejecting you. Sometimes, things can be done. Sometimes, no.
- gte910h 16y agoWhy did this get downvoted? This is true, I do this for a living, and I've SEEN over 5 apps rejected get unrejected after some talking to the people. Sometimes it's clarifications, sometimes it's just showing what you're doing to a second person in the devrel group.
- DenisM 16y agoI'm guessing because you're not providing any information on how to find those mysterious "developer relations people"? It's like "I know how to fix this problem, but I'm not telling you any useful details".
- gte910h 16y agoOH, stupid me. You literally just call Apple and ask for them. (408) 996-1010 is the generic apple number. I forgot everyone didn't know that, calling that you can eventually find them by asking for the developer relations people when asked. For local developer specific numbers, http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html is a good list (may require program login to the iphone dev program). Sorry, I guess many people don't think to just call and ask, and I didn't make that clear.