Juggleware Developers' Blog » satire http://www.juggleware.com/blog news and random thoughts from your friendly neighborhood independent developers at juggleware, llc Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:42:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun. http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/09/apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun/ http://www.juggleware.com/blog/2010/09/apple-only-professional-satirists-can-make-fun/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:43:52 +0000 alec http://www.juggleware.com/blog/?p=303 Well the Freedom Time controversy has long passed from my mind, except when some other story pops up that reminds me.

Today I had the chance to read Apple’s new App Store Approval Guidelines (registered developers can read them here…

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Regular readers will remember that Juggleware’s own app Freedom Time was actually the test case of this unwritten and up-til-then unknown policy, which had …

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Juggleware’s debut iPhone app, Freedom Time, as many of you so cleverly noticed, was an application with a time-specific usage. Funny, it just happened to coincide with the inauguration of President …

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Well, as everyone in the galaxy knows, we now have two …

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There was a pretty steep learning curve, and …

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