Software is protected by free speech guarantees. Apple isn't the US government, and therefore isn't beholden to the First Amendment. I think that Apple using its position to suppress political speech is bad, but they're certainly well within their rights to do so.
I totally agree that it is within Apple's legal rights to do what they are doing. I was just saying that it is also my right to both stop being a customer and also to try to talk other people out of buying Apple products.
Apple is a gatekeeper, but so is Microsoft. Google effectively controls what users see on the web. Have you figured out how to balance these influences, or do you avoid all three of them?
In any case I find it highly ironic that one commenter on your blog post brings up Samsung as an alternative. Not quite a flying drone, but still... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1
Let me try again: I don't like that someone can write software that is perfectly legal and to see Apple censor it. AppStore is very far from an open platform.
Writing software that interprets public data and disseminates it seems like a form of "speech" to me.
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That really lags.
Software should be protected by free speech guarantees.
It looks like the developers just use open news data for this - nothing wrong with the doing this.
Pardon the self-plug here but I blogged today about why I hope not to buy anymore Apple products: http://blog.markwatson.com/2012/09/can-we-agree-to-stop-buyi...
Software is protected by free speech guarantees. Apple isn't the US government, and therefore isn't beholden to the First Amendment. I think that Apple using its position to suppress political speech is bad, but they're certainly well within their rights to do so.
I totally agree that it is within Apple's legal rights to do what they are doing. I was just saying that it is also my right to both stop being a customer and also to try to talk other people out of buying Apple products.
Apple is a gatekeeper, but so is Microsoft. Google effectively controls what users see on the web. Have you figured out how to balance these influences, or do you avoid all three of them?
In any case I find it highly ironic that one commenter on your blog post brings up Samsung as an alternative. Not quite a flying drone, but still... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1
I don't remember hearing Apple sending troops to the "developer"'s house arresting him.
Forgive my crudeness, but you're absolutely clueless about what "free speech guarantees" mean.
Let me try again: I don't like that someone can write software that is perfectly legal and to see Apple censor it. AppStore is very far from an open platform.
Writing software that interprets public data and disseminates it seems like a form of "speech" to me.