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The author was led astray and thought they had done their verification. It’s hard when your primary source is lying/misleading you.
We could only be so lucky to have main stream news offer such a full-throated apology/retraction when they get it wrong.
There's no mention of or apology for how Godier deceived Gruber and the world about the astronomy/astrology App Store submission/rejection.
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours...
> In an uncomfortable exchange between Beher and Godier on Bluesky, Beher pointed out that Godier’s Dark Hours had the same bug as Beher’s that routed people to “random fields in Mexico”. Stealing an open source repo and launching it as your own app is a brazen move. Launching it with the same name as the original repo is just flagrant. This guy thought he was going to ride this controversy to some free publicity for…
That’s not theft. The author explicitly told people he wants them to do this; the company is just taking him up on the offer.
EDIT Thank you all, I'll now go search for something else to be triggered by.
Wait, are we all treating "astrology is banned on app store" as an obvious fact of life? Did I miss some culture war? Are religion-focused apps also banned? EDIT Thank you all, I'll now go search for something else to be triggered by.
Wait, are we all treating "astrology is banned on app store" as an obvious fact of life? Did I miss some culture war? Are religion-focused apps also banned? EDIT Thank you all, I'll now go search for something else to be triggered by.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_reje...
Wait, are we all treating "astrology is banned on app store" as an obvious fact of life? Did I miss some culture war? Are religion-focused apps also banned? EDIT Thank you all, I'll now go search for something else to be triggered by.
>Regardless of one’s opinion regarding pseudoscience and occultist horseshit — pro, con, or indifferent — one might reasonably think it wrong for Apple to disallow or discourage such apps from the App Store. In fact, there exist plenty of such apps in the App Store, and Apple has even run “Best Astrology Apps” editorial features. Apple’s stance is basically that the App Store has enough of these apps (and I suspect they’re a common source of scams, given that by their very nature they target the gullible). Guideline 4.3(b) states (emphasis added):
>> Certain kinds of apps, such as dating, flashlight, sound effects, wallpaper, simple timers, and fortune telling, are well established on the App Store and we will not accept new submissions unless they offer a meaningfully different or improved experience. We may remove these apps from the App Store going forward if they are not updated, improved, or do not attract customers. Other kinds of apps, such as drinking games, Kama Sutra, fart, and burp apps, are mediocre, low-quality, or low-effort and do not add value to the App Store.
> In an uncomfortable exchange between Beher and Godier on Bluesky, Beher pointed out that Godier’s Dark Hours had the same bug as Beher’s that routed people to “random fields in Mexico”. Stealing an open source repo and launching it as your own app is a brazen move. Launching it with the same name as the original repo is just flagrant. This guy thought he was going to ride this controversy to some free publicity for…
Isn’t it MIT-licensed? That’s not theft. The author explicitly told people he wants them to do this; the company is just taking him up on the offer.
It appears that this essential part of the MIT license was violated.
The MIT license does not allow you to claim that you invented the software when you did not in fact invent the software.
> In an uncomfortable exchange between Beher and Godier on Bluesky, Beher pointed out that Godier’s Dark Hours had the same bug as Beher’s that routed people to “random fields in Mexico”. Stealing an open source repo and launching it as your own app is a brazen move. Launching it with the same name as the original repo is just flagrant. This guy thought he was going to ride this controversy to some free publicity for…
> Stealing an open source repo It's in poor taste for sure but let's not pretend that the chosen license is doing him any favors: https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours/blob/813cf85/LICENSE Hate to see people fall for the “fewer restrictions == more Free” fallacy. Profit-driven entities love when smart people publish MIT code that they can feed off of without giving anything back. Nor is the copycat project prevente…
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