Reply #6: Nazi-like? Puh-leeeeze.

[Atman]

That is a ridiculous assertion.

Count me as among those who think Apple is wrong on this one. Still, calling them "Nazi-like" is as over-the-top in one direction as Apple's is in the other.

Here's how it goes: Apple's lawyers wrote up some standards to help keep them from being sued. The language is at once legalize and intentionally vague. Some Apple employee gets "WEBSITE X" on his to-do list for Thursday, one of thirty other apps on his list which were submitted for approval on that day. He/she checks it out. He/she makes a determination based completely upon Apple's rules, and more than likely has never even heard of Fiore.

Point is, give this a chance to work itself out. A friend of mine who is a Mad Magazine cartoonist submitted an animated Congressional Bobble-head doll app, and was turned down under the same rule. But a concerted lobbying effort, in part from here on DU (because I posted about it), eventually led Apple to review the app and eventually approve it. Fiore's app will likely be approved once a few thousand people write and bitch and point to Fiore's resume. It's the way the system works. Stop whining and comparing the most trivial things to Nazi tactics.