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Apple At Its Worst: It's Time to Stop Censoring Apps
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But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
People that keep writing articles like this should not buy Apple. Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android. Those are your options. But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
Or Windows Phone, looking like a stronger alternative all the time.
People that keep writing articles like this should not buy Apple. Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android. Those are your options. But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
Either accept it or buy Android. Or Windows Phone, looking like a stronger alternative all the time.
People that keep writing articles like this should not buy Apple. Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android. Those are your options. But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
Either accept it or buy Android. Or Windows Phone, looking like a stronger alternative all the time.
Same problem as with Apple.
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Either accept it or buy Android. Or Windows Phone, looking like a stronger alternative all the time.
I intentionally left it out, despite Windows 8 and the new Nokia looking gorgeous. It's the same problem. If MS says "No", then you're done. It's not your phone, you don't get to side-load the app. Same problem as with Apple.
Apple censoring what other devices are allowed to exist outside their production-lines and what competing products customers are allowed to choose is.
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I intentionally left it out, despite Windows 8 and the new Nokia looking gorgeous. It's the same problem. If MS says "No", then you're done. It's not your phone, you don't get to side-load the app. Same problem as with Apple.
It's the same fundamental problem, but side-loading isn't the only way to address it. People leaving the platform can apply market pressure on Apple to do the right thing.
(Granted, in all fairness, the Android Market removes apps as well, but side loading is kind of the eventuality here).
People that keep writing articles like this should not buy Apple. Apple is going to do what they're going to do. Either accept it or buy Android. Those are your options. But let's be serious, Apple risks "consumer trust"? Not in any way that is likely to be measurable.
I am forever bewildered by consumers that have this sense of entitlement around a company and "demand" this action or that action.
It's their company. They can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, that's great. Dissenting opinions are a foundation of this great country. But Apple also deserves the right to not care what you think, and not care if you go somewhere else. The majority of consumers have no problem with it.
If Apple wanted to wall of the entire platform, they could do that. But instead they have created the biggest app market for mobile devices (from what I understand, please correct me if this is not 100% accurate, but the point remains it's huge). Does it suck that a few apps are rejected for seemingly dubious reasons? Sure, I guess it does for those developers. But I've been hearing dire warnings about mass exoduses and public outcries since the inception of the app store. Hasn't really happened besides a few edge cases that we see on Hacker News every other month or so.
To be honest, I feel that this particular app's story is only popular because it has to do with the politics of the drone program.
>> "Some consumers are already beginning to grow uncomfortable with Facebook's privacy policies, Google's targeted advertising, and other cases in which, whether justified or not, technology starts to feel a little creepy. Twitter takes protecting privacy and free speech very seriously, and even if most users don't notice or care yet, that stance will serve the company well as social media continues to part and parcel of our daily lives."
Got it. FB and Google evil. Twitter good.
Except that's not really true either. Twitter has worked with several law enforcement offices, particularly when identifying Occupy Wall Street protestors that were accused of crimes.
So I just don't find this article very credible on the facts, or the opinions persuasive at all.
Apple censoring apps in its own proprietary app-store isn't really a big deal to society as a whole. Apple censoring what other devices are allowed to exist outside their production-lines and what competing products customers are allowed to choose is.