[OT] A tale of App Store rejection

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/19/13 8:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Bob-
>
> Saturday, January 19, 2013, 5:35:48 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't have any control at all over what people put on their
>> servers? Really?? You need to think again.
>
> Er...not exactly. You're forgetting the part about having only one
> place to go to install apps on a device, so Apple can tell you what
> apps you have the right to install on the device you think you own.
> And that as a developer you can't sell apps without giving Apple a 30%
> cut, and can't even give apps away for free unless they say it's ok.
>
> IANAL, but I can only imagine that the reason the RICO act hasn't been
> brought up is that Apple has more agressive lawyers than the
> government.
>

I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell 
through the Apple stores. That's probably what keeps their system legit.

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