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Apple's Not Fond of Brunettes
- mdonahoe 14y agoWhy does apple take 5x as long to reject apps in situations like this?
- xtractinator 14y agoI'm pretty sure they have more profitable things to attend to.
- martian 14y ago"The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store." This article was originally posted on June 6th. It's now June 29th. After 23 days, this issue is still not resolved. I'm not a user of the app or a fan, but I find this incredibly curious and sadly opaque.
- blahedo 14y agoIt's a lot longer than 23 days; the core issue dates back to February. I'm actually not sure what has changed about their situation since February; most of the stuff on the OP was not new.
- lacker 14y agothis issue is still not resolved Not exactly. Apple's guidelines state that they do not want more "apps such as fart, burp, flashlight and Kama Sutra apps". So, this issue is resolved in the sense that Apple has successfully booted this app out of the App Store. Game over.
- lucian1900 14y agoApple still prevent users from choosing what software to run on the devices they own. Obviously there are some people that want Kama Sutra apps, and there's nothing wrong with that.
- zalew 14y agohttp://hackerne.ws/item?id=3852003 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3852003 IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes (ikamasutra.com) 350 points by varl 73 days ago
- knowaveragejoe 14y agoI don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.
- zheng 14y agoI'm not trying to be snarky, but apparently they don't care that much if they can't handle working with developers about an issue as simple as this. Even just telling them "We have decided not to reinstate your app, sorry" would be better than what they are doing.
- cageface 14y agoUntil people start making more money in the other app stores Apple can be as abusive as they like. The unpublicized truth is that Apple barely breaks even on the app store as it is.
- micaeked 14y agosource?
- britta 14y agoHere's a source from 2011: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-02-23/industries/30702421_1_apple-shareholder-ceo-steve-jobs-tim-cook/3 http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-02-23/industries/307024... > Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, added that the company runs its App Store and iTunes store “just a little over break-even,” to counter claims that the company is trying to use apps to drive up its profits. saurik has also written a few comments about this - see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155998 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4155998 > ...despite their massive volume, Apple's App Store makes sufficiently little profit that they don't even break it out as a separate line item on their 10-Q (instead lumping it under "music related products and services", the same category that handles both iTunes and iBooks)
- cageface 14y ago
- zemo 14y agoHave they tried making the people have a hair color that is between the accepted and rejected ones? Bisect the acceptance/rejection continuum.
- pjscott 14y agoThat assumes that the hair color thing was their real reason. I doubt it.
- cageface 14y agoI'm fed up with this nanny state app store model. As a hacker I feel like I have an obligation to fight this trend. I'm committed to a couple of iOS projects right now but when they wrap I'm going to take a very hard look at getting back on the open web.
- monochromatic 14y ago> nanny state app store It's not the state.
- SiVal 14y agoNot yet.
- endgame 14y agoDamn straight. My macbook sits unused in another state because I made the same decision a year or so ago. I don't miss it, in fact I _prefer_ my GNU/Linux netbook.
- DeepDuh 14y agoWhat does your laptop brand have to do with your choice of mobile development? MacBooks are quite good linux machines if you want to go that road.
- binspace 14y agoIt helps that the blonde does not show off her ass crack.
- mcantor 14y agoSomeone needs to be fired over this.
- pbreit 14y agoIs there a chance this was an accident?
- michaelt 14y agoPerhaps they meant to block Kama Sutra App™, Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Kama Sutra! - Manual of Sex, Kama Sutra: Manual of Sex, Kamasutra™, Kamasutra 3D, Kamasutra by Vatsyayana, Kamasutra for iPad, Kamasutra fun, Kamasutra Museum 3D, Kamasutra Museum 3D HD, KamaSutra Posiciones, Kamasutra The Game, Kamazootra, Kamazootra Lite, 101 Positions of KamaSutra, Kamasutra (Deutsch), Kamasutra - Sex Positions Guide and Kama Sutra, KamaSwami, or KamaSwami for iPad. Perhaps it was only through confusion that they blocked iKamasutra.
- willtheperson 14y agoAre Apple employee's forbidden to release their own apps? How easy would it be for some person in the loop to just rip off an app and have their competition kickbanned? There's probably no law against insider-"apping"
- thatjoshguy 14y ago> Are Apple employee's forbidden to release their own apps? Yeah, we're forbidden from it. Conflict of interest.
- scoot 14y agoSo it's a conflict of interest for employees to rip-off other people's apps and have them rejected, but not when Apple do it? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejecte...