Apple might be talking a big game about how it's
revising the App Store approval process with an oversight board and
trotting out Phil Schiller to do damage control at
opportune moments, but the process itself is still generating inconsistent and maddening results -- like today's rejection of an app advocating for healthcare reform called iSinglePayer, which was rejected for being "politically charged." Yeah, that's insane, especially since the app just consists of healthcare spending information and a GPS-driven lookup tool for local Congress members and how much money they've received in health-sector donations. Say what you want about the political motivations of the app, but that's a fairly benign set of functions, and it's one that's been echoed by political apps on both sides of the aisle since the launch of the App Store. So why this rejection, and why now, when apps with names like "
Conservative Talking Points" have been approved? And honestly, how is it even possible anyone at Apple is dumb enough to reject this without anticipating the firestorm of controversy it would cause? Who knows anymore -- we have a feeling ol' Phil's about to earn his paycheck explaining this one.
P.S.- We're not here to debate politics, so keep it clean down there, mmkay?
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Daring Fireball]
posted September 29th 2009 6:28PM
Yamikotai,
You have proven my point: all socialists are ignorant, severely misinformed, and naive. Nothing in this life is free - get over it and get your ass back to work. You and all the other filthy pieces of shit who want to suck down the free handouts only perpetuate this problem. The more people on the system, the more the country goes into debt. As this happens, our government tries to get countries like China to buy our debt. Pretty soon, those countries are going to call in all their IOUs and if we can't pay, they now own us. We already have to kiss their feet to appease them. Just yesterday they celebrated 60 years of communism by putting up lights on the empire state building. What the hell for? Not for the American people, but for the Chinese.
Like I said before, if you don't like it, get the fuck out and go to socialist or communist countriesthat already have systems in place that are more amenable to your point of view. We could even pay for your plane ticket :) in the end it would be alot cheaper for the government to send you assholes out of the country (along with all the illegal aliens) than it would be to nationalize the healthcare system haha!
I laugh every time a weak-minded lazy socialist loses his or her job and then piss and moans that it's not fair. Maybe if you would all do your damn job, you wouldn't have to rely on and suck off the government and ultimately the people who DO their job and do it well. MAYBE if all he lazy socialists worked a little harder, they would earn more and MAYBE, just MAYBE they wouldn't be hitching about how much money everyone else makes.
Otherwise maybe all the socialists could beg Michael Moore to spread his wealth around a little bit after he makes a few bucks from other ignorant socialists who go to see his movies. Isn't it funny that he's using the capitalist system to market a movie about socialism? LOL socialists and liberals are so hypocritical and naieve!