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Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by johncolanduoni »

smokeyj wrote: post #74
msbarnett wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Dateline can't build a concern-trolling episode around "Are iPhones Youth-Corrupting Pornography Machines" when everything and your toaster has a web browser. Every criticism would equally apply to Android and your laptop. It's water off the brand's back. But if Apple is literally taking money and distributing pornography, a news unit is shooting that story tomorrow. Nintendo faces many of the same problems,…

Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails. Furthermore, if Dateline is an influencing force in Apple product decisions - remind me to smash my iPhone into a million proprietary pieces.

The concern here is likely that some idiot will try to measure their own weight with it or some such nonsense, and then break their phone. I'm sure Apple still remembers "bendgate", and has no desire to get a bunch of bad press about how the screen's glass is fragile. Like bendgate, they'll probably be vindicated when actual experiments are run, but that is of little comfort.

Also, the parent was responding to why the same argument doesn't apply to Safari. I'm afraid what prevailed was ignoring context, not logic.

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by ankitaggarwal »

threeseed wrote: post #24
w4 wrote: post #3

That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (and why most of my recent side project work has been on web apps). App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on som…

Apple's position is actually very easy to understand. Don't do anything that is likely to cause significant harm to them. Examples of this include: (a) negative press publicity e.g. porn app, drone strike app, (b) stealing from or harming their customers and of course (c) this app where they will have to cover the cost of you putting heavy objects on something that it was never designed to do. If you want to damage y…

Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by r00fus »

vinbreau wrote: post #68
cguess wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really really obvious reason they did this. People are dumb. Someone, probably very soon, and probably more than one or even ten people, would overload the weight and crack their screen. At which point they would show up at the Apple Store DEMANDING a brand new phone. When they didn't get the repair because they're too stupid to understand how glass works they would contact CNN or HuffPo or whatever and there'd be a…

I did Apple support from 2000-2010 and I find this is a ridiculous argument. Apple constantly gives out free phones. I've given a free iPhone (5th replacement) for a guy who dropped his phone at a construction site and it was run over by an industrial vehicle. I've given a free phone to a famous tennis start because she threw it across the room in a fit of rage. I denied tons of free iPhones to people affected by Aen…

Giving out free phones is not a sustainable way of doing business. The just sold ~50m phones on a historically low volume quarter.

Statistically speaking any meaningful way to reduce phone handouts is probably worth the negative publicity.

Banning this app is one such way.

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by smokeyj »

msbarnett wrote: post #79
smokeyj wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails. Furthermore, if Dateline is an influencing force in Apple product decisions - remind me to smash my iPhone into a million proprietary pieces.

> Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails. Reread thread. This grew out of discussion about Apple forbidding apps with confederate flags etc. Inflammatory, controversial content. Y'know, like pornography. The weight thing is obviously much simpler: Apple doesn't want to be the punchline on a lolpiece on the…

"Child installs eBay app to purchase dildos - news at 9."

I understand PR is an influencing factor in corporate decision making - but if Apple is choosing to cater to the Dateline crowd rather than satisfy their core audience, Tim might as well purchase dragon dildos for the entire staff.

Allowing or banning an App is PR worthy. Damned if I do or don't type thing. But a developer wasted time from his life that'll never be returned. Responsible adults who wish to use this functionality aren't able to. The proprietary nature of Apple's wall gardened is coming into question. That's the PR Apple should worry about, and this is a gross miscalculation.

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by kyriakos »

Mikushi wrote: post #21

Clever idea and use of technology, not surprised to see Apple reject as they want nothing to do with either concepts. As a developer I will never develop for, support, condone or recommend Apple products to anyone I know because of such behaviour, they want a wall garden, good for them, but I'll have no active part in it.

someone might use it to weigh medication or something explosive etc... they can't be held liable. but of course this should be the developer's fault not apple's but apple wouldn't be apple if they didn't exercise their dictatorship from time to time.

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by matt4077 »

kyriakos wrote: post #86
Mikushi wrote: post #21

Clever idea and use of technology, not surprised to see Apple reject as they want nothing to do with either concepts. As a developer I will never develop for, support, condone or recommend Apple products to anyone I know because of such behaviour, they want a wall garden, good for them, but I'll have no active part in it.

someone might use it to weigh medication or something explosive etc... they can't be held liable. but of course this should be the developer's fault not apple's but apple wouldn't be apple if they didn't exercise their dictatorship from time to time.

Couldn't we say this about any app? People look up medical info in a browser and self-diagnose, self-medicate and accidentally-self-harm.

Re: Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

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Post by matt4077 »

cjensen wrote: post #29

Using an extremely expensive ultra-thin high-resolution touch-sensitive easily-scratched display as a scale is a pretty terrible idea. If Apple allows the app and someone weighs tiny diamonds on the screen, whose fault is it that the display is scratched? Ordinary people may not understand how the Mohs hardness scale works. Ordinary people may not be accurate judges of whether or not something is too heavy to place o…

RTA! Any object would have to be in a spoon (or something similar). And even diamonds on the screen wouldn't scratch it unless you applied pressure. At which point you don't deserve a scratch-free screen (but can buy one with those diamonds).
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