The situation regarding Apple's App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn't duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications. Two such cases made headline news over the past few days; Podcaster and MailWrangler. The developers of these applications openly protested against these rejections, and apparently, Apple doesn't really like that. Apple now reiterates that rejections fall under the NDA, prohibiting developers from speaking up about rejections.
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Member since:2006-11-24
I hope Apple meets their history here - would serve them right. So, Apple phone, please go the way of Firewire, which co-coincidently is the way of the dodo, too... Apple really learns its lessons harder than a retarded child and you guys are no help in buying their crap 
Member since:2005-11-10
I get your sentiment; but I don't understand the Firewire dig?
I love Firewire. It freakin' works. USB hard disks are painfully, woefully slow. Firewire is a really good standard, and it only didn't catch on [in the PC world] because of cheapo PC manufacturers not wanting to pay the licencing cost.
My 2003, 40GB 3G Firewire iPod transfers songs 2~4x faster than my 2006 5G USB2 iPod.
Member since:2005-11-21
Somehow, somewhere, in your mind a highspeed serial transport that is taking over the auto, aerospace and other fields that already has the DV camcorder industry and it's commercial breathren is not successful because your freakin' external drives, music players and cheap digital cameras don't come with Firewire?
Member since:2005-07-06
At the same time I hardly think that the majority need to have their phone restricted because there are a small number of idiots out there who load their phone with dodgy garbage.
If there are troublesome phones that are being used as 'spam bots' because some idiot has loaded their phone with crap - boot them off the network! when I was at an ISP and we had idiots infected with virus's, we would boot them off the network - when they wanted to know why they couldn't log in we would tell them that they were sending virus's out from their computer and needed to install updates and update their virus checker.
Member since:2006-05-13
This is the same guy who loves DRM, Securepath and Microsoft's totalitarian autocratic authoritarian government-colluding monopolistic oligarchical collectivist illegal anti-individual anti-libertarian thug-like strong arm tactics.
Seems you need to brush up on what individual liberty is and re-read 1984 a for more times. You more or less parrot for the oligarchs while telling everyone how stupid they are.
Member since:2005-09-27
The part I disagree with Apples lockdown is a lot of their reasons arn't for technical problems more the just don't want them.
Java, Flash, Other Web Browsers. Anything that competes with what is currently there. However there is about 100 flashlight applications (Aka a white screen)
Member since:2007-09-06
I'm more curious to see how the Maemo platform continues to develop. Apple was never an option for me with it's closed OS and non-removable batteries. Google, well, they're realy open on the software side but I just don't want that much of my life blindly handed over too there databases. There is nothing compelling from the Maemo competitors right now.
I just hope Nokia and the Maemo developer community can stand up to the Cult of Mac consumers and freight train that is the Google brand.
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2005-07-07
The difference in approach between the Google and Apple when it comes to their mobile platforms is blatantly obvious. Google encourages anybody to write for their Android platform while Apple tries to maintain an iron grip on what runs on their iPhone.
Both approaches have their merit of course. Should be interesting to see how the users react to these two approaches. While I'm a Mac user, I'm rooting for Google on this one.