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This app needs to be published.
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Shouldn't we think of the App Store in the same way that people and companies cannot force a retailer to stock their own product.
Why do people continue to use this terrible analogy? The App Store is not like Walmart. A better analogy would be a car company that forced you to come to them for all of your service and for any after-market work you wanted to do.
I would suggest to add a function so you can add a personal note to each day, and sell it as a mood tracker / diary. First, it would be useful to keep track of why you were feeling bad or good on a given day by maybe a making a small not on what happen. Plus, then apple would not be able to reject it, as it would be a diary app with a graph. There are a ton of diary apps on iOS, and this one would even have a graph.…
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What do you mean a "clone of their product" ? Desktop PCs had big icons on screen for years, there was nothing new or even remotely original in having big icons on a screen for an mobile OS. That should be declared an obvious invention and not worth of protection at all. The main new thing that they did was to use a touch screen that can be operated with fingers and gestures, but hey, even that idea was not new eithe…
Palm had the grid icon layout for years before apple did it, but nobody would confuse an old palm device with an iphone when actually using it, and palm in fact had to throw it out and start all over with the pre to deliver an iphone competitor. There's a big difference between a good concept and a good execution of a concept. Apple have always been brilliant at execution, even if they don't have many original concep…
RE giving back to the community; FreeBSD, CUPS, WebKit, LLVM and Clang to name a few. Notice I haven't claimed that any of these were directly invented by Apple, but all have varying levels of investment and contribution from Apple.
This is all out there on the internet. It takes a couple of seconds to look up with whatever search engine fits in with your ideology.
I wonder - when an app rejection with a good idea happens based on it being "too simple" (and many great ideas are simple to implement), what if competition picks up the idea, adds more bloat, gets approved and steals the original's thunder, shouldn't Apple be held responsible and pay for damages? There's probably no chance of that happening, because it's their app store, they can do whatever they want and so on. But…
With all their patent trolling and absurd tyrannical control over the app store, I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple.
> I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple. Good hardware offerings (beyond the "my custom built hot-rod has a faster CPU"), and a full blown UNIX desktop OS with a nice interface and access to all kinds of proprietary software and consumer/professional peripherals. Plus "absurd tyrannical control over the app store"? Apple made the whole platform, API and market out of thin air, it's not like pe…
It's hilarious the number of people getting up from their Xbox or Playstation to rip on Apple for being a closed garden, and why, oh why, would anyone, anywhere be so stupid to develop for, or buy into, a walled garden.
The cognitive dissonance is intense, which explains, I think the barely contained rage seeping out of each comment.
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> I have no idea why so many tech-saavy people still love Apple. Good hardware offerings (beyond the "my custom built hot-rod has a faster CPU"), and a full blown UNIX desktop OS with a nice interface and access to all kinds of proprietary software and consumer/professional peripherals. Plus "absurd tyrannical control over the app store"? Apple made the whole platform, API and market out of thin air, it's not like pe…
As long as users are not allowed to install their own apps, Apple have "absurd tyrannical control" over iOS apps.
Developers hated it, of course, so now we have the App Store. But it's not like Apple has all of a sudden stopped people from bookmarking a website and using it like a built-in app.
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As long as users are not allowed to install their own apps, Apple have "absurd tyrannical control" over iOS apps.
Well, as long as users could not care less, it doesn't count as "absurd tyrannical control" in my books.
If I want to install software on a device that I bought, I should not need to jailbreak it. If I want to install software on a device that I bought, I should not need to buy a developer's license.