rkturbo7
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Vintage 24.24.2.2413
Joined: 11/27/07
Location: Indiana%2C PA
Posts: 20
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You know what, the whole "I hate Apple, but I loved them a week ago" stuff is annoying, but it isn't nearly as bad as the "Look who's hanging off TRs nutsack" crap. A lot of the people have no real experience with Apple's approval process, and have just now seen the dark side. They can change their opinion, maybe because it's only Trent who has given them any insight on to what actually happens. This kind of denial isn't that rare. There was a craigslist app that got denied because it showed the images from the listings. They had no control over that, yet to make it acceptable, they had to disable image viewing. This took all the pictures off all the listings, explicit or not. The real irony of this is you could click on the listing in the app to open it in Safari. Then you could see whatever you wanted, in an Apple designed and installed package. Try sending Apple a complaint/denial letter because "Safari allows me to view adult content and I wish to have it removed from my system." I have yet to get a reply.
I still like Apple, just as much as I did before this happened. I also still hate their approval process and their stupid guidelines, but I'm still going to use it. It was really intended to keep malicious programming off the iPhone (hence, the AppKillSwitch built into each OS). Can you imagine having to run a firewall and a virus scan on a system this slow and bogged down? It would be unusable. They just expanded it to cover possibly objectionable content. You would be amazed by how many people think Apple makes every single app in the appstore. They are also the ones hosting and distributing it, so they do have a right to choose what they want and what they don't. If apple likes it or not, there are ways to distribute an app without having to deal with them. Repositories may be a lot more open about what they allow, but I have my doubts that even they would allow an app that "collects stored e-mail accounts and passwords, sends them to a server and then uses bonjour to seek other iDevices on the network to pass along the program."
This is nothing more than just a small bump in the road and possibly even a mistake made by whoever reviewed the app and thought TDS content was embedded. For all we know, they could resubmit the app and it get approved without having to do anything. It was probably something stupid like the reviewer was playing with random things and just happened to stream "big man with a gun" instead of "hurt" or something like that.
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