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"The first rule of App Store rejections is, you do not talk about App Store rejections!"
Apple doesn't want any breaks in its circle of trust

Earlier this month, DailyTech reported that Apple has been pretty restrictive when it comes to accepting certain applications into its App Store ecosystem. The company most prominently rejected an application which it claimed provided functionality too similar to existing Apple applications.

The backlash that Apple received after the public airing of the rejection notices now appears to have set off another round of restrictions from Cupertino. According to Mac Rumors, developers receiving rejection notices from Apple can no longer talk about why their application was rejected. Rejection notices now bear the following text in bold letters:

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS UNDER NON-DISCLOSURE

So developers who now spend time developing for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch now run the risk of having their application rejected plus they now cannot talk about their rejections with anyone else.

This move comes not long after the Podcaster application was rejected by Apple. Podcaster was to provide new functionality to the iPhone and iPod touch by allowing the subscription, management, and streaming of podcasts directly to the portable device instead of having to be tethered to a desktop or notebook. Apple, wary of such a powerful program being available on the App Store, provided the following statement in a rejection letter:

Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.

Naturally, many in the iPhone/iPod touch development community as well as Mac enthusiasts were upset about the decision. The rejection notice from Apple was posted all around the web and for the most part, Apple's actions were seen as a negative move that would discourage developers from providing applications to consumers out of fear of having their hard work rejected due to reasons that only Apple deemed appropriate.

Apple’s move to stifle the bad press from its App Store rejections may have erred by going the NDA route with rejection notices. If the response from the Mac community is any indication, this move may be even more frowned upon.

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Must obey Steve Jobs
By MrX8503 on 9/23/2008 5:49:02 PM , Rating: 2
Apple=Communist




RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By dsx724 on 9/23/2008 5:50:30 PM , Rating: 3
worst, they're fascist. communists are inherently good minded. apple is trying to purify their users.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By drebo on 9/23/08, Rating: -1
RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By dsx724 on 9/23/08, Rating: 0
RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By dsx724 on 9/23/2008 6:02:04 PM , Rating: 1
i take that back. that was dumb on my part to use incorrect grammer to justify my interpretation. it's all a matter of perspective and living under communism had its ups and downs just like living under any system.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By mdogs444 on 9/23/2008 6:08:38 PM , Rating: 3
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invading another country and bankrupting yourself is the stupidest thing thats ever done.

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living under communism had its ups and downs just like living under any system.


First, your justification goes against your point. The Cold War, mainly instigated by Russia, caused Russia to bankrupt itself due to military spending.

Second, if you're referring to the US/Iraq war and the troubles on Wall Street as being connected, then you're far away from reality. Last I checked, people buying homes that they cannot afford has no connection with overthrowing a dictator & murderous regime.

However, I would love for you to justify me that the societies of the Soviet, Cuba, and even the people of China have prospered and had any "ups". Unless you're the son of Putin, Castro, or Jintao...you are vastly incorrect in everything you've said.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By JasonMick (blog) on 9/23/2008 6:18:43 PM , Rating: 5
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Soviet, Cuba, and even the people of China


Ah but those are Communist dictatorships -- not true communism ;)

Communism in its purest form is more like a democracy, it has no clear figure of authority, but rather is a society working together. Unsurprisingly do to the selfish nature of mankind, this idea is rather impractical and has never seen the light of day in any true implementation. Maybe those countries adopted communist mechanisms on some scale, but ultimately their overlying power structure was a nationalistic dictatorship.

There's often a disparity between a philosophy and those who take its title as their label (i.e. neo-cons are not conservative at all by the definition of conservatism, but typically run huge budgets, yet they call themselves conservative).


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By mdogs444 on 9/23/08, Rating: 0
RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By foolsgambit11 on 9/23/2008 6:33:52 PM , Rating: 4
Actually, mdogs, you've got them mixed up.

Socialism = China, USSR, Cuba.
Communism = erm... kibbutzim? I don't know. Not a lot of examples to go on. The OP got close, though. Communism would be a classless, stateless (i.e. absolutely no government), propertyless, egalitarian society. Think John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

Plus, I think you two are arguing the same side on selfishness and the practicality of communism, albeit with differing degrees of fervor.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By captainsparkle on 9/24/2008 7:10:22 AM , Rating: 3
Lets go one step further:
USSR was Stalinist/Leninist;
China is Maoist;
Cuba is Castro-ist (maybe Stalinist. I must say, my knowledge of Cuban history is lacking).

Either way, none of them are near enough to Marxist nor Communist.
After all, isn't the communist revolution supposed to replace the old powers with new ones as an interim, then create and entirely new system of a work-lead paradise? its that last step that seemed to be missing....


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By the goat on 9/24/2008 7:42:46 AM , Rating: 3
The closest historic revolution to true communism would be the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. They succeeded in completely eliminating social classes and brought equality to the population. This resulted in 20% of the country's population dieing in four years. But everybody was equal.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By captainsparkle on 9/24/2008 4:31:18 PM , Rating: 2
ethnic genocide notwithstanding :-)
I wouldn't call what they did communist insofar as it was agrarian rather than industrial. That is sort of splitting hairs though.
But either way, it didn't work out so well.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By HinderedHindsight on 9/23/2008 11:07:41 PM , Rating: 5
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liberal talking point of mankind being "selfish"


Doesn't the Bible talk about mankind being selfish? If the Bible talks about selfishness, and the conservative base is Christian, that would make it a Conservative talking point as well.

And I would argue that the floundering financial institutions are more entrenched with the mindset of "you have something I don't, and you're going to give me some of it." They've lost tons of money, and now they're saying to the government, and by extension, the taxpayers "give me some of it." Which is basically a cop out of the situation they got themselves in. It's a perfect circle.

See what happens when you have more than just cursory thoughts about these things- you end up discovering a truth that you weren't even aware of.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By JustTom on 9/24/2008 7:57:19 AM , Rating: 2
Communism is more like an anthill than it democracy. While there are I am sure many good hearted Communists as a movement it invariably causes death, destruction, and social upheaval.

One cannot divorce a political theory from how it implemented. Especially when that implementation happens every single time. Marxist thought was the biggest nightmare of the 20th century, it was directly responsible for over a 100,000,000.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By Samus on 9/25/2008 6:26:51 AM , Rating: 2
Denmark is such a democracy that it could be consider a communist society. It works there...but only there for some reason ;)


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By dsx724 on 9/23/2008 6:27:35 PM , Rating: 1
1: I wasn't referring to Russia but thats exactly what good ole USA is on the path of. Invading other countries has pitfalls just like the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union lead to its collapse.

2: It has everything to do with far right policies. Last time I checked, Wall Street and Iraq were both policies of an American elected idiot who destroyed the very things moderates tried to protect, balance.

3: You don't know circumstances that makes every country what it is. We just happen to be incredible well positioned after we took untapped land and exploited it for our own use. It has nothing to do with our people being superior or smarter than other people. Russians, Cubans, and even Chinese people are probably happier on average even with less. Not everything is determined by how much you can plunder and burn.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By mdogs444 on 9/23/2008 6:32:56 PM , Rating: 2
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ast time I checked, Wall Street and Iraq were both policies of an American elected idiot who destroyed the very things moderates tried to protect, balance.

These "policies" of Wall Street you THINK you know about are ones you should go back and check your facts on. These policies were actually put in place during the Clinton administration allow lenders to give loans to people with subpar credit. It was the democrats who enabled the mindset that everyone has a right to own a home, and got rid of the mindset that everyone has the right to an OPPORTUNITY to own a home.

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Russians, Cubans, and even Chinese people are probably happier on average even with less.

Have you looked around lately? Cubans would have to work 12 months straight without spending a dime just to afford to buy a cellular telephone. Chinese people work 16hr days in camps with very little pay and are restricted to how many children they can have. The average Russian and people of ex-Soviet states live in fear that the Russian government will kill them.

Ahh yes, how happy they are.


RE: Must obey Steve Jobs
By foolsgambit11 on 9/23/2008 6:45:11 PM , Rating: 5
You're thinking of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, introduced by Republicans, then passed by a veto-proof majority by a Republican-led Congress in 1999, which deregulated banking markets an allowed the introduction of these new unregulated financial instruments.

Don't try to blame Clinton. (Although you can blame plenty of Democrats who also voted for the bill.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Ac...

As for your conflating money with happiness, I'm not going to argue that point because I think the counterargument is self-evident.