mashable.com — The most recent incident of an application being pulled though is raising the specter of Apple censorship; or at least applying their own moral judgement of whether an application can be listed. Such is the case of Infurious Comics and their Comic Reader that was meant for easier distribution and reading of web comics on the iPhone.
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tfrescaAug 29, 2008
He should just focus on getting his business working.. Been getting "The itunes store is temporarily unavailable" sign here for hours.
macharborguyAug 29, 2008
mrsteveman1: all good points on your side, but the fact remains. It is an Apple product, and they, like any other hardware maker (Microsoft with the XBox, Sony with the PS3 and PSP, Nintendo with the Wii, other cell makers if they wanted too, Tivo) has final say in what they can and will allow on their device or what they will allow users to do with their device.DVRs that have a disabled firewire port may piss off people, but guess what, they have the right to do it. DVRs with encrypted content on the internal drive, again, their decision in the end. They don't want you to get the content off of the device, and are within their right in preventing you as best as they can.Excuses can be valid or not. In the end, what they say is final until things change. Is the vocal minority going to change things? No, and if they do it will almost certainly make things worse. Want an example?Lets look at HD-DVD: When the battle was still going on, everyone who wasn't a sony-fanboy wanted HD-DVD to win out because it was more open and not proprietary to a single company. It was also cheaper to make HD-DVDs than Bluray since it was basically just a denser DVD (in terms of storage, but there may be other technical reasons that I am not fully aware of, but that is neither here nor there). Everyone sang the praises of HD-DVD and shunned Bluray.Then HD-DVD was cracked and the code was posted on Digg and removed. All of the people that were die-hard supporters turned on a dime and said in one voice "KEVIN ROSE, REPOST THE CODE OR WE WILL GO EMO AND HATE DIGG!!!" The code was then reposted and following that, HD-DVD slowly died. Why would any studio want an HD format that was easy to crack and easy to pirate? They wouldn't (the DMCA didn't just appear out of thin air and for no reason at all), so they went with Bluray (there are other reasons, it is true, but the cracking of HDDVD's encryption was a huge point). The very people that supported HD-DVD turned on it for the sake of piracy and assisted in it's downfall. Way to go there, everyone involved, thank you for giving the win to Sony.
macharborguyAug 29, 2008
lrdntwnd: I just rip in Apple Lossless (and since I mainly have Apple products I have no problem with it). Main reason: I listen to a lot of electronica, and even at 160kbps AAC the high ends many times sound off, watery, or tinny. Sure the files are bigger, but with the amount of hard drive space we are getting, who really cares. Plus I don't ever want to pull out my collection of CDs ever again, as I can just re-encode the lossless files to a lower bitrate if I ever had the need to do so. To each his own though.
digichrisAug 30, 2008
Lemme clear up that I wasn't talking about porn when I say "adult content". Pretty funny stuff tho guys, masturbating on the subway...lol.
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
You claim that you could brick your iphone while jailbreaking it? Please don't spread fud. And yes there are apps that I can get on the iPhone while jailbreaking it that are not on the iTunes music store. Such as tethering my iphone to my laptop for internet access. Apple had it shortly up, but then quickly pulled it because it was against at&t's business model of charging extra for tethering.But thanks for not responding to my point at all. You just proved it true when you chose to ignore it and instead call me an idiot. May I call you an Apple fanboi who feels uncomfortable when Apple is made to look bad? Even though it may be true, you can't let that happen. Apple is perfect even if they are not in reality.And your response about the dvd drives having custom firmware to be region free, that's no longer needed I believe. I didn't need to flash my dvd drive's firmware to rip dvd movies with it. That way I can convert it to be played back on my iPhone, even though I don't find it very appealing anyway, instead of having to buy it from the iTunes store. That must just infuriate you since I'm bypassing Apple's business model of charging the customer twice instead of just providing the ability to rip a dvd and convert it to run on an iPhone or iPod without having to use 3rd party applications to do it.But your whole point is not to make a point but to sound like you made a point. You're using the straw man fallacy and it doesn't work. Too bad, you fail.<a class="user" href="http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html">http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man ...</a>
mrbitchSep 2, 2008
RE: " AAC is NOT AN APPLE FORMAT, it's a widely adopted lossy format that has replaced MP3 format since it's technically a superior codec.I think you got confused with the Zune, which DOES have DRM running directly on the Zune player. "I post up FACTS and I get dug down by the Zune fanboys?
darthvaliumApr 29, 2010
erm. masturbation is no s**t. and it's not perverse.
darthvaliumApr 29, 2010
f**k Apple for their closed platform iphone. Seriously, I am a Mac and I find this s**t offensive.