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How do they manage to block so many quality apps for whatever trivial terms violations but then not have provisions to block these clearly infringing and straig

• dalore 16y ago
  These apps clearly not infringing Apple's trademarks and copyrights, so they are ok.</sarcasm>
  • roc 16y ago
    I'm bemused to see developer opinion lining up so strongly behind the idea that Apple should apply their review judgment to block apps and/or ban developers from the store for supposed transgressions that violate no written policy or term of service. It seems not so long ago popular opinion had Apple in the wrong for doing exactly that.
    • blasdel 16y ago
      The idea is that if you're going to do it at all, you should do it competently. The biggest component of the early uproar over the approval process was that it was a total cockup. As for "written policy or term of service", those only apply to you, not Apple, and are enforced at their leisure under their interpretation. They can do whatever they want -- they don't have to publish your work if they don't want to. Currently Apple only polices trademarks and copyrights that they own themselves -- for everything else they willfully turn a blind eye and wait for an infringement notice from the IP owner. They probably think they can successfully argue to a court that this absolves them of responsibility in all cases under the DMCA, but I'm not so sure.
    • Vivtek 16y ago
      It's the perceived hypocrisy. Apple either cares about app quality (their stated reason for barring Flash) or they don't (thus it would be fine to let the crapps stay) - but they want to have it both ways. That's what people are down on.