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Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun.
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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Tagged App Store, apple, censor, defamatory, Freedom Time, iPhone Development, rejected, satire
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Apple v. Satire, part 17.
Pulitzer-prize winning satirist Mark Fiore had his app rejected by Apple because it “ridicules public figures.”
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 …
Posted in App Store, Freedom Time
Tagged App Store, apple, censor, defamatory, developer, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development, parody, rejected, satire, steve jobs
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Juggleware app mentioned on NPR
NPR ran a story yesterday about Apple’s new iPad which just hit stores, but critics say that the “walled garden” approach (just like the iPhone) makes the Internet a less free place and could spell the end of the net …
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Tagged App Store, censor, Freedom Time, iPad, iPhone Apps, NPR, steve jobs
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Freedom Time “more important” rejection than Google Voice
Jason Grigsby wrote an excellent article on Cloud Four about the significance of Apple’s rejection of Freedom Time that anyone who is interested in Apple’s App Store policies, or corporations and censorship should take a look at.
Thanks Jason, I …
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Tagged App Store, apple, defamatory, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, parody, rejected, steve jobs
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Apple tries to defend its App Store to the FCC
I just saw that Apple has put on its home page now has a public response to justify its App Store policies.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/
Of course the FCC is primarily interested in its rejection of big, important apps like Google Voice, …
Posted in Freedom Time, iPhone Development
Tagged App Store, apple, censor, defamatory, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, iPhone Development
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Forced obsolescence; Happy new era.
It’s a new year and a new era!
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 …
Posted in Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, Miscellany
Tagged Bush, countdown, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, satire
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Freedom Time now available for your desktop!
I made a promise to myself on November 3. If Obama wins, I’ll make a downloadable version of Freedom Time for Mac and Windows and let everyone download it.
Well, as everyone in the galaxy knows, we now have two …
Posted in Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, Bush, censor, clock, countdown, Flash, Freedom Time, iPhone Apps, Mac, satire, Windows
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