Tag Archives: satire

Apple: Only “professional” satirists can make fun.

Posted on September 9, 2010 by alec

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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Apple v. Satire, part 17.

Posted on April 19, 2010 by admin

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 …

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Forced obsolescence; Happy new era.

Posted on February 10, 2009 by alec

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 …

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Freedom Time now available for your desktop!

Posted on November 7, 2008 by alec

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 …

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Freedom Time: Our First iPhone App!

Posted on September 12, 2008 by alec

FreedomTime for iPhoneIt started out as Court’s idea as a way for me to learn Apple’s Xcode, Obj-C, and the iPhone development kit, but it kind of took on a life of its own.

There was a pretty steep learning curve, and …

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