Tweetie 1.3 approved -- what are we supposed to do with this wagon full of torches and pitchforks?
By Paul Miller 
posted March 10th 2009 11:03PM
posted March 10th 2009 11:03PM
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You guys freaked out pretty bad earlier. Thank God we got our Tweetie update!
Keep freaking out! Bring the pitchforks and torches! This thing is still very much broken -- Diggle, a digg.com reader, was rejected last week because one of the top Digg articles had the title "FUCK". Once again, Apple advocates censoring the Internet before letting your app connect to it... The offense: http://twitpic.com/1zxis
In the spirit of bad words on the internet, Fuck Yeah Bitches!
Bleeper bleep bleepen?
I see a trend toward vulgarity here....
Yep, the Internet has it's place. Also goes to show that Apple does cruise the message boards.
HELLO STEVE! GET WELL SOON!
It could be that the freaking out caused Apple to blink.
App Store and its ridiculous "approval" process is the most idiotic thing in the world! There!
...and the 'update' on ALL the new mac products... Even ones that havent been invented!
What is idiotic?
Not idiotic - Apple's approval process - tens of thousands of successes, and less than 10 "problems" most of which are not problems at all, but reasonable grounds for rejection, or temporary problems that get fixed. So, ten problems, tens of thousands of successes, that is an error rate that is ridiculously low and clearly not a "broken process" as Nilay suggests.
Idiotic - saying that a process with an error rate of less than 0.1% is "broken beyond repair" as Nilay said on the original post.
Idiotic - thinking that when problems arise, they will not get fixed quickly.
Idiotic - calling a process 'idiotic' when it is amazingly successful. You do remember those tens of thousands of successes, right? Or are you under the impression that only those apps which the developers and blogs have whined about, are the totality of apps available in the store?
Idiot.
Don't expect any high praises with a comment like that, Vanilla. What with it's logic and reasonable thinking.
Unless you're talking shit on Apple, whether it's warranted it or not, the general Engadget user won't like it.
I guess it's because deep down they know Apple really is superior and just love to take shots at the guys on top. Kind of sad really.
lol @ "guys on top"
Vanilla, I guess you forgot this:
Idiotic - mindlessly backpeddling to allow an App through after it was blocked for no apparent reason.
Idiotic - allowing Apps which duplicate (and execute better) some of the iPhone's existing features, contrary to business acumen.
"poeple raed swaer wrods on the inetntet" : Wicth wrods are cosndier to be bad ?
Am I the only one who refuses to use twitter?
i will not join that bandwagon either.... i dont think twitter is that useful just yet haha
we are still getting use to the facebook and myspace apps!!!
You are not alone.
You and me are doubtlessly the only people above 15yo here.
Brace for low rank impact!
eh, I use it, but I never post. Who gives a crap what I have to say, right? I only use it to follow a few people like my favorite web comic artists.
-on toilet, about to shit. then maybe I'll go eat-
Yeah right, Twitter ROCKS!! I mean who wouldn't want to know the asinine details of the general public's day!?
Not alone. Tweet my balls bitches.
I don't use Twitter or Facebook because I have enough things on which I can waste my time. And as far as Apple goes they used to be a company to admire up until they became the computer of choice for brand conscious hipsters with more money than sense. As good as OS X is as a platform it's still just a piece of software not a fucking lifestyle choice. Now they're just the American Apparel of consumer electronics. It's cool 'cuz everybody "cool" has one. Lame.
Oh come on, my whole school doesn't use Twitter. Whole school! That's from ages 4-18, so yeah. In Twitter's face.
Jack_Barron,
Is it really that big of a deal?
Refusing to use a service just because it's currently in a trend ... Just makes you as trendy for the reverse. Like Goths.
But yeah, I find it odd that every single person who bashes twitter just doesn't get it to start with, The Angry Intern has the right idea!
*Sigh* I guess Anti-social people IRL will be Anti-social on the innertubes.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/b027/zoom/
You're not the only one. It seems as though only people in the public eye get bent out of shape about twitter issues...maybe because they like the idea of having "followers". Just more fodder for the internet I suppose.
....there's another Luke here??? gtfo pl0x
also: shitting dick nipples
Yup, best name ever.
ya know, I was tempted to make another account for this moment...
As was I.
I have balls on my chin.
this highlights the need for consistency in apple's approval process. they can't ignore that any longer.
pitchfork tested, apple approved.
Mmmm... Nutella...
Seconded!
Yummy!!!!!!
+1 for delicious Nutella comment
Crap, I was going to post exactly the same thing. What now?
Mmm... Nutella Gelato...
The apple PR team reads engadget, thast the simple answer for sure
engadget is the apple pr team
Zing!
Good, that was a stupid idea. Although, I was so looking forward to a nice angry mob
Everytime I read a news article about this story it takes on a new angle. Gotta love bloggers/press for their manipulation of the facts.
While they're looking, how about some good ol' C&P action?
To be the guy checking apps all day,
"Wonder what they do if I deny one app... oh yea I need a reason.
*sees picture of Jesus on desk and starts typing*
*few hours pass*
"Look its the same app, Accept"
Must of been the most excitement hes had since denying all those x rated apps.
Hooray for the freedom to yell "FUCK" accross the inter tubes...
Yeah...freedom...we can curse, sweet.
*BLINK* Crisis averted? umm... *wow*, well with those supplies still might come in handy for digging out the economy...
I find it most likely that somebody at Apple unaware of Twitter's functionality dismissed the App on no grounds.
I think it was a mistake that got blown up.
Nutella is overrated. Sure, it's pretty delicious, but average everyday peanut butter is vastly superior.
To be fair, of course, average everyday peanut butter is superior to almost everything.
I think you mean bacon
Everything is better with bacon... EVERYTHING
Mmmm, turbaconduckhen...
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