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I can never tell if TechCrunch is being devious to get page views or just lacks journalistic integrity. Before this story was updated with the information about

by jsz0 16y ago

I can never tell if TechCrunch is being devious to get page views or just lacks journalistic integrity. Before this story was updated with the information about the June 30th grace period it was completely inaccurate. After the update the entire story is completely invalid. At best someone's opinion which is based on not knowing much about the situation. Is this really enough to pass as journalism? You can sum up the whole story as "Apple might be doing something different but maybe not. Oh wait I didn't know about this one important fact but I might be right anyway so I dunno. Thanks for the page views suckers"

cooldeal 16y ago
>I can never tell if TechCrunch is being devious to get page views or just lacks journalistic integrity While it's easy to blame Techcrunch, I think Apple's the one being capricious and totally inconsistent, just like with app approvals earlier. Readability's App was rejected because it was a subscription without IAP. Then Jobs says SAAS apps are exempt, but no one knows what the difference is and Apple won't define it. Readability thinks it's a SAAS.Everyone is confused what rule applies since when and you're blaming Techcrunch for what, reporting on how confusing things are? Maybe you can tell us what Apple's policy is and what is being enforced now? And now these App updates are approved. It looks like Apple's first picking on the small guys to try to shake 30% out of the big guys. I don't think that's because it's afraid of legal repurcussions. I think it's because it knows its users would be pissed if really popular apps go missing. Regardless of what Gruber or other people opine, iDevices need apps to get sold. There are a bunch of people who bought iPads and iPhones to read Kindle books and watch Netflix movies. If Amazon or Netflix call Apple's bluff, it would be interesting to see what happens. I think both sides are not going to make the first move though, it's blame-game time come June.

by jsz0 16y ago

cooldeal 16y ago

>I can never tell if TechCrunch is being devious to get page views or just lacks journalistic integrity While it's easy to blame Techcrunch, I think Apple's the one being capricious and totally inconsistent, just like with app approvals earlier. Readability's App was rejected because it was a subscription without IAP. Then Jobs says SAAS apps are exempt, but no one knows what the difference is and Apple won't define it. Readability thinks it's a SAAS.Everyone is confused what rule applies since when and you're blaming Techcrunch for what, reporting on how confusing things are? Maybe you can tell us what Apple's policy is and what is being enforced now? And now these App updates are approved. It looks like Apple's first picking on the small guys to try to shake 30% out of the big guys. I don't think that's because it's afraid of legal repurcussions. I think it's because it knows its users would be pissed if really popular apps go missing. Regardless of what Gruber or other people opine, iDevices need apps to get sold. There are a bunch of people who bought iPads and iPhones to read Kindle books and watch Netflix movies. If Amazon or Netflix call Apple's bluff, it would be interesting to see what happens. I think both sides are not going to make the first move though, it's blame-game time come June.