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Unless the title of the blog post has been changed since submission to HN, why the editorialised title? Edit: I've since learnt that that is actually the title of the post. It still seems kind of sensationalist none-the-less.
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Let me try: your parents are paying for your iPhone and they don't want you to have a Kama Sutra app :)
So, let me try to figure this out: Kama Sutra - not ok. Killing people app[1] - ok. ??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gAdb2N7Po
Today I realized that my 3g plan is censoring adult content. I also listened to a podcaster talk about renaming his podcast "talkings hit" to get passed the itunes criteria. The paper had some silly fluff article about Facebook and breastfeeding pictures. Youtube is stricter than TV on nudity (and laxer on violence).
These were all little corners of the internet up until recently and it seemed all right that they all have their own rules. Suddenly they pretty much are the internet and soon the will be the computer.
I don't like it.
Unless the title of the blog post has been changed since submission to HN, why the editorialised title? Edit: I've since learnt that that is actually the title of the post. It still seems kind of sensationalist none-the-less.
The title of both the HN submission and the blog post are "Apple Hates Brunettes" at the moment, unless I'm getting some kind of cached copy?
I hope that Steve Jobs, who happily credited himself as an openly adherent member and ambassador of the counterculture that fought for ideas like this to be acceptable in a then over-conservative society, is rightfully turning in his grave.
The fact that this happened on both the App store, and Google Play almost simultaneously raises the suspicion that one of the less reputable competitors lodged some kind of complaint.
Very possibly. It could also be that someone at Google is watching what gets taken down from the app store an following suit.
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Yes the fact that you can add extra apps is better than the 'our way or the highway' approach of the apple app store, but defaults matter . 99% of people think the play store/app store/android market is the only way to do it. You remove it from there, it's gone.
What matters more is the fact that if a family member of mine wants me to make a personalized app for their iPhone, it's not doable unless the great big Apple approves of the app. (or we jailbreak). That's just ridiculous in so many ways. Even if you want to wall in your hardware to your own appstore, you should always provide SOME way of letting users install their own software, even if it's some hidden obscure opti…
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In this case the crux of the problem is that they're deleting an app that's almost as old as the app store itself. Curating content is almost impossible to do; app stores should limit their reviews to exclude: - viruses - blatant spam and copyright violations and THAT'S IT. Assessing the quality of an app is what users' ratings are for (and of course excluding adult content is just childish).
App stores should do what is good for their shareholders Apple is trying to move from being the cool kids counter-culture creative types alternative to the PC to being the corporate acceptable alternative to the Blackberry. A story about karmasutra apps or ifart in the WSJ could cause a CEO to change their mind about allowing users to use their iPhone on the corp network. And of course the best way of preventing such…
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What you are saying boils down to "Surely it's obvious that...". Of course, the problem there is that it's not obvious to a non-trivial number of people. Who apparently in this case work in Apple's review department. The most obviously idiotic things often look perfectly sensible from "inside", or from a singular perspective.
But like any big organization, there are likely idiosyncrasies that have bubbled and been allowed to continue just because, "that's the way things are." For example, the whole iphone4 antenna thing was surely seen by many people...but it's likely that someone at top said, "It's passable" and everyone else on the team learned to just accept it. Just because lots of people recognize a big problem doesn't mean that all…