How Apple's Moral Compass Works
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How Apple's Moral Compass Works
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Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#2Since HN doesn't have a private messaging system...
VoxelBoy, I noticed your username. I'm a graphics programmer --- I'd love to read about the type of stuff you've done, or simply chat. Have you looked into Sparse Voxel Octrees? Toss me an email (it's in my profile).
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#3Apple's moral compass is pretty much dictated by image, especially amongst the userbase of it's products.
As far as I can surmise, an app would be banned if:
* it would offend a large potential group of customers
* it offends even a moderate but vocal set of existing customers
* it spews and/or supports the spewing of FUD
* it makes the iPhone or Apple look bad
All in all, these are pretty easy to guess guidelines. They're also very geared towards keeping and attracting customers, and thus, the bottom line.
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#4They view the App Store as, well, a store. Just like virtually any other store, online or off, they restrict what they choose to sell. Ordinarily this isn't controversial, but for the fact that in Apple's case, the App Store is the only way to get native apps.
This sentence
> Apple has complete control over the kind of information you can get on your phone, and it exercises that right seemingly capriciously.
is just blatantly wrong, of course. It only has (near) complete control over the native apps you can get on your phone. There are several other obvious channels of information that it does not control.
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#5tl;dr: professional-grade trolling
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#6Apple's moral compass is pretty much dictated by image, especially amongst the userbase of it's products. As far as I can surmise, an app would be banned if: * it would offend a large potential group of customers * it offends even a moderate but vocal set of existing customers * it spews and/or supports the spewing of FUD * it makes the iPhone or Apple look bad All in all, these are pretty easy to guess guidelines. T…
Alternatively, the company is run by a comparatively moralistic CEO. Apple and Steve Jobs are not as superficial as their many detractors accuse them of being. In fact, they're among the least superficial entities in the business.
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#7Since HN doesn't have a private messaging system... VoxelBoy, I noticed your username. I'm a graphics programmer --- I'd love to read about the type of stuff you've done, or simply chat. Have you looked into Sparse Voxel Octrees? Toss me an email (it's in my profile).
Sure, I will. I'm currently doing game development with Unity and I haven't dabbled in self-contained graphics research. I would hazard that you know more about me when it comes to voxel data and rendering; regardless, it's a topic I'm very interested in. Aside: Voxatron by Lexaloffle is doing some cool things with voxels, check it out sometime.
Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#8There is really nothing insightful in this article. It's a list of a few banned apps and them throwing up their hands saying "who knows!?"
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Re: How Apple's Moral Compass Works
#10Apple's moral compass is pretty much dictated by image, especially amongst the userbase of it's products. As far as I can surmise, an app would be banned if: * it would offend a large potential group of customers * it offends even a moderate but vocal set of existing customers * it spews and/or supports the spewing of FUD * it makes the iPhone or Apple look bad All in all, these are pretty easy to guess guidelines. T…
Alternatively, the company is run by a comparatively moralistic CEO. Apple and Steve Jobs are not as superficial as their many detractors accuse them of being. In fact, they're among the least superficial entities in the business.
Would this be the same CEO that would fire people if they couldn't justify their job in an elevator ride? Or the Steve Jobs who denied his daughter's existence until it was painfully clear she was his (going so far as to force her mother onto welfare because he refused to support her)? Or are you talking about the Steve Jobs who paid lip service to improving conditions at Foxconn while not forcing them to improve anything (I think there's been 3 suicides so far this year)?
I own Apple products, I love my Apple products, I love Steve Jobs' talent for creating them. But let's hold off on beautifying the man shall we?