magnumchaos posted:

Trent, I couldn't agree more. Apple and Wal-Mart and such stores have become morally ambiguous and hypocritical to a melting point. Do they not even have a clue as to the number of sales they have lost because of their poor "moral and upstanding" standards and policies?

Sadly, so true. It's also what is preventing me from GIVING them 700+ dollars for an iPhone. For that kind of cash, they need to unlock it for me so I can use it with my international carrier when I am living abroad. Instead I am told I cannot use the iPhone outside of AT&T....which means they are loosing my app cash, my itunes cash & my original investment of 700 dollars because they can't fathom how to work around the fact that AT&T is not international.

RAWR. That may not be concise in it's explanation, but I just got through arguing with AT&T so, my brain is not well.

mustacheman posted:

Damn that sucks. I always hate inconsistencies and hypocrisy. The only album from any band I would purchase at Wal-Mart would be Ghosts, since it's being sold for 9 bucks (and I really need to replace the one I have). I always hated how Wal-Mart will edit music, but leave the DVD's alone. I don't have an iPhone or anything, so this doesn't really affect me, but I'm sure people really wanted this. It's shit like this that makes me want to business elsewhere. .__. Fucking assholes.

Yes, the iPhone app is pretty cool. It has a combination of useful and intuitive features that have been brought to the forefront of technology thanks to the features of the iPhone. It's just disappointing that Apple has to prove themselves a bunch of hypocritical assholes that need to go fuck themselves.

I can't say "I'm a Mac" and feel cool about it anymore ^^

So, dumb!!! Glad to see Trent pissed at them. And if Apple looked at half of our profiles I bet they would say the same thing, "indecent". Fucking dumb.

Can't get much more retarded than Apple.

Does that mean you'll use Windows from now on???

Am I the only one with a Love/Hate relationship to Apple?



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Can someone put this in DIGG so this could have more viewers than nin fans only ...

trent_reznor posted:

You can buy The Downward Fucking Spiral on iTunes, but you can't allow an iPhone app that may have a song with a bad word somewhere in it.

The Downward Fucking Spiral, that must be a new remix album. I don't have that one!

All joking aside, that's pretty fucking retarded of Apple, considering you can buy TDS on iTunes. And god helps us all if a kid can hear a bad word through their phone, when likely they've said it themselves about 100 times that day.

A few thoughts...

1. Someone is having a powertrip at Apple - shit happens.
2. Most likely Apple just released an internal knee-jerk reaction memo due to the wonderful "baby shaker" game and anything that might be possible politically incorrect or offensive to anybody's granny will be rejected. Give it a week and resubmit.
3. Like I said in my Tweet, do a South Park on them and take the "offensive" material and change it to the most offensive shit you can think of. With this in mind, I suggest you change all references to TDS to Pussygrinder or George Bush or something similar.

FIGHT THE POWER.

I am with you 100%, Reznor.

CAUTION, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, NOT SUITABLE FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T BELEIVE IN THE RIGHT FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES, OR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.



No shit.

But really, what in the hell is Apple thinking? I was just thinking this the other day when I saw that they rejected it, yet, I can go on iTunes and get an uncensored version of songs and videos that I can download... I am so pissed about this, mostly from the fucking double standard that NIN is all of a sudden getting from Apple. I wonder how many people have purchased and downloaded the NIN Tap Tap Revenge?? With what like 400,000 people following TR on twitter, I would say it's probably A LOT... here we are, NIN fans once again supporting TR and Co...supporting a company THEY believe in, and then this happens...Nice, thanks a whole fucking lot Apple. By the way, I just bought a fucking iPhone, so that I could enjoy all of the apps, but also because I wanted to support a company that one of the greatest artists of our time really had great things to share, through a company that he believes in... it pisses me off that he has to continue to deal with the same bullshit from a company that is supposed to be so innovative and reliable in the music and entertainment world...like TR said, the least they can do is be fucking consistent.



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Angry as usual I see, Mr. Reznor.

I agree, it's kind of dumb that Apple would reject your app for something like that. What makes even less sense is: why would they reject it now, when the streaming was supported before? It makes no sense.

Seven1963 posted:

Apple claim to support innovation and here they are resorting to the same old crap we see from companies the world over.

It is, however, brilliant to see you actually calling these companies on their hypocrisy and complete lack of consistency.

I love that you don't jump through hoops for these morons.

i'm with Seven on this one.
FUCK jumping through hoops, that shit's for dogs and familiars...

Fuck Apple. If Apple is giving you this bullshit, pull the app and sell it on the Android Market, for Android phones (aka Googlephones, e.g. the T-Mobile G1).