Thursday, April 15, 2010

The 1st Amendment violates Apples dev agreement, apparently

Apple Blocks Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist From App Store - app store - Gizmodo

Freedom of speech, who needs it? Seriously, an anti-satire clause? I know that Apple are just reaching for the sky when it comes to dick moves these days, from the horribleness of the new iAd system (1 in three app launches forces a full-screen ad and all apps have 1/8th of the screen taken up by ads at all times), to freezing out coding languages to screw over Adobe, and suing to ban HTC phones for patent infringement over the blatantly over-broad patents that Apple holds as some kind of proxy war with Google over Android, Chrome OS and Google applications like Google Docs. Add in the generally crappy way they treat their customers ("You can only use the devices you paid for how we say you can use them"), and there's a very good reason why I don't buy Apple products.

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