Really ... Why do you continue Apple users? Why do you persist? Is creating an anti-competitive shitty world for your children not at all a matter of concern for you?
Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons
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Re: Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are not charging extra for the app so it's not "to make a few extra bucks." They are attempting to do the best job they can for their customers. Depriving your customers because you want to take a principled stand by taking steps that is almostly completely guaranteed to not work just makes no business sense.
So they're going to play censor for "business sense" but it's not about money? Morals outrank money. And it's not even economically a bad decision on a long enough time scale. What's going to make your company look the best ten years from now? Taking a principled stand against censors, on behalf of your users, while maintaining your product's integrity and vision? Or sacrificing your product in order to temporarily g…
It makes zero sense to pull this app just out of principle. Especially when it wouldn't matter to Apple anyway - It would only hurt Treehouse, and the investment they made. The kind of change you're looking for needs to come from policy makers.
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#33Didn't Apple preach several times, especially at keynotes, about how they're all about the intersection between education and technology?
Seems BS if you're just going to censor the education part for your own benefits.
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#34Link-bait title from an obvious splog network about a company looking for any kind of PR. From whom is that quote originating? Where is Apple's rejection letter? Which section of App Store guidelines they specifically violated? Edit: the link was changed from a TNW piece to an admittedly better story at tech.co
> Where is Apple's rejection letter? Be careful assuming everything in a rejection takes place in the official rejection letter. It can also take place over the phone as well, where nothing gets written down.
Or emails can be written and never sent...
Re: Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons
#35Didn't Apple preach several times, especially at keynotes, about how they're all about the intersection between education and technology? Seems BS if you're just going to censor the education part for your own benefits.
Whatever they claim at the keynotes, they have never been about education and technology. They have only been for and about money. That's it.
Re: Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons
#36I believe this is an older policy even preceeding the AppStore. There aren't many iTunesU courses for Android even (last I checked there was only one by GSVU).
Re: Treehouse Launches iPad App, Apple Prohibits Android Lessons
#37Up next ... they're going to ban chrome and any app with a webview because you can access Android content! I am of course being facetious, but it sucks.
Their not going to ban Chrome, they will just wait 6 months to approve every update in the app store. Like what they did with Google Now for iOS (the Siri competitor): http://www.geek.com/apple/google-now-for-ios-is-ready-but-ap... They have always been good at sneaky stuff, like making iTunes slow for Windows... Then it's Windows fault :-) http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/0126252/itunes-stil... And using an…
I've been planning to switch to Google for a while now (both as a consumer and as a dev).
The lack of apps had been a valid issue for me, but thankfully the Play store has mostly caught up the AppStore. I'll still have an Apple device (stability, better camera, etc) though.