Apple are playing the gadget fascists again. The censor-heavy company has unsurprisingly rejected a “magazine” app from Danish publisher Mediaprovider because the content was exclusively about Android, the big bad rival OS.
It's not exactly clear what grounds the censorship was on, since a magazine app from the Netherlands called Androidworld Reader is already available on the App Store. There's defiantly a hint of hypocrisy in Apple's law and I think even they aren't clear on where the lines are drawn.
As well as apps that are too pro-Android, the App Store bars all forms of nudity, even when the intent not sexual. And one of the more worrying examples of the company's censorship is there previous banning of literary masterpieces like James Joyce’s Ulysses and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Dixen of Mediaprovider complains that Apple’s censorship and the time it takes to get “controversial” issues approved or rejected hurts the value of the publications. “We have to get not only our apps but every single copy of our magazines approved,” he says. “I wonder what will happen if we choose to make the next issue of our magazine about mobile phones in general a theme issue about Android."
By pulling stunts like this Apple are driving people towards the very rivals they are trying to hide. It's time for Steve to have a serious think about his politics.
Source:electronicsta