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It no more legal or ethical than Apple using their right to exclude whoever they want from their store. It's like if I have a party and you are doing something
by Steko 14y ago
It no more legal or ethical than Apple using their right to exclude whoever they want from their store.
It's like if I have a party and you are doing something to annoy me personally even though you are being legal and ethical I can tell you to get the fuck out.
Today's lesson is don't be that guy at the party, don't be that guy in the app store, the one who decided to reverse engineer the store owner's shit and then caused a scene when the host threw them out.
- fpgeek 14y agoWhy shouldn't Rogue Amoeba have "caused a scene"? As another comment notes, they've probably had the code to do this for a while. Why should Rogue Amoeba continue to sit on it instead of taking the chance? Unless they were banned from the App Store entirely (unlikely based on past practice and probably less of a concern since their app was a free add-on anyway), they'd have lost nothing (and gotten a decent amount of sympathetic publicity in the process).
- Steko 14y agoHey everyone can do whatever they want. I'm pointing out the reality of the situation is not one of ethics or legality (see grandfather). The reality is if you play close to the lines, don't be surprised if you're found to occasionally be out of bounds.