December 15, 2008 — app store, iphone
I received word last week from Apple that my latest iPhone app submission was being rejected because…
it contains content that ridicules public figures and is in violation of Section 3.3.12 from the iPhone SDK Agreement which states:
“Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”
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December 28, 2008 — app store
Late last week, I sent this letter to Al Gore’s office in Tennessee.
December 27, 2008
Honorable Albert Gore, Jr.
2100 West End Avenue
Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203
Dear Vice President Gore,
I am writing you in your role as a director of Apple, Inc. about the opportunity to use Apple’s iPhone platform as a tool for American political dialogue.
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January 10, 2009 — iphone, app store, obama
After over 16 weeks in review, I today received word that my
Obama! iPhone app has been approved for sale. Thanks to Dave Counts for artwork, my kids Brian, Michael, and Rebecca for puzzles and quote research, and the final push from the app review team to make this available in time to celebrate the inauguration of a new era.
See Obama! in the App Store.
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August 26, 2009 — app store, iphone
...yet another take on the App Store
There’s lots of talk going around about the iPhone App Store and Apple’s tight control over it. This week Joe Hewitt and Chris Messina weighed in with their thoughts. People in the iPhone community have been complaining about this for a long time, and although there’s no sign that anything is changing, more attention to this topic can only help.
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Larry Wall. Larry is famous for creating the Perl programming language, for running the large open-source team that’s grown up around Perl, and for freely mixing his personal thoughts into his professional work. When we talked, Larry said something to me that seems fit for the App Store and also seems like a pretty good way to live.
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